[QUOTE="Vaasman"]2042 is way too early for such a shift to take place. Even with illegal aliens flooding in, Caucasians made up more then 80% of the US population in 2006 accoding to the US census, and that statistic has barely changed since our founding. How is it that within 30 years, only 3 generations, we will somehow have shifted our population so drastically? Plus this would mean once race would have to be a majority. Lets do some quick math.
The current U.S. population is about 305 million according to the article.
Going by the 2006 census percentage of 80.1% being white, minus 10% to appease critics (it's only been 2 years but whatever), that would mean that right now there are 213 million white Americans.
Now, the article predicts a population of 439 million by 2050. Even if the white population were to have absolutely no population growth from my earlier estimate of 213 milllion, that would still mean that they would account for 48% of the population in 2050, which almost certainly means they would still be the majority. Just to prove the point though, if the current black population according to the 2006 census experienced no growth, they would still account for about 9% of those 439 million. Anyone, what's 100-48-9? 43%, meaning that whites would still be in the majority by 5% even if one race somehow took every single other percent besides whites and blacks.
You shouldn't take every prediction to heart, a lot of them are wrong.
RKfromDownunder
It predicts that America will only have 439 million by 2050? Damn, considering America's growth I would have imagined it would be between mid 500's and 600's of millions :O
It's not totally unreasonable. The population growth rate is at about 3.5 million added each year. 3.5 times 42 is 147, though of course that assumes steady growth rate for the next 40 years, which is rather unlikely.
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