Majority minority

Majority minority is a new buzz word created by the Census Bureau. What does majority minority convey?

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article whites are on the verge of becoming a minority among new born children in the U.S. Is this considered a demographic shift? Will this reshape politics in the U.S.?

It is stated that minority births will soon eclipse births of whites of European ancestry. It appears our English heritage is on the decline in the U.S. We all know that immigration has emerged as one of the nation's most controversial issues. You read the new Arizona law?

How are we arriving at this so called majority minority future? It appears the median age of the white population is older than that of nonwhites. A larger share of minority women are in prime child bearing years. It appears that from recent studies white women are having fewer children if having children at all. Another study indicates that we are having a great deal more multiracial births.

Many believe illegal immigration is the reason for the majority minority future. Is it possible? The Hispanic population produced approximately nine births for every one death, compared with a approximately one-to-one ratio for whites. According to a recent study most of the Hispanic births are from legal immigrants, and this would indicate that illegal immigration is not the driving factor behind our nation's growing diversity. It appears we become more like Europe each and every day.

In an interesting side note one of the individuals interviewed stated he remembered being perplexed when an elementary school teacher made him throw away the remainders of his cafeteria lunch instead of bringing it home. This would have been a wasteful move in his native Philippines. The individual is now a citizen of the U.S. and is the owner of a small business that creates jobs in the North Carolina area.

Majority minority is it on the way?