USA TODAY: More than half of all babies born last year were members of minority groups, the first time in U.S. history. It’s a sign of how swiftly the USA is becoming a nation of younger minorities and older whites.
Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities in 2011 accounted for 50.4% of births, 49.7% of all children under 5 and slightly more than half of the 4 million kids under 1, the Census Bureau reports today.
In all, minorities had 5.9% fewer babies last year than in 2010, but births among non-Hispanic whites fell even more, down 10.1%, Johnson says. A key reason: A greater share of the minority population is of child-bearing age… (more)
EDITOR: This nation has continuously been altered by waves of immigrants from different parts of the world. It is our hang up over the color of skin that makes the current transition different and, by many, feared. Nevertheless, over the next couple of generations newcomers will be assimilated, although a differential in skin coloration will likely remain for some time to come. Our grandchildren will hardly notice.
