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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: The Changing Face Of America - Census Data Reveals Jump In Minority Populations, Particularly Hispanics, And Not Just In Big Cities (CBS) Census figures reveal a new reality in America's classrooms, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. Minority populations are climbing everywhere. "The white population, I wouldn't say is fading into the background, but it is becoming the older, less fertile part of the population," says demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute. Frey crunched the census data and found huge jumps in the Hispanic population far from the traditional melting pots - up 21 percent in St. Joseph, Missouri; up 17 percent in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and 15 percent in Pascagoula, Mississippi - all in just one year's time. "You're seeing it everywhere. People are going for jobs," Frey says. "They're going because they want the American Dream." Whites still make up 66 percent of the population. But their numbers have grown only two percent since 2000, compared to eight percent for blacks, 29 percent for Hispanics and 26 percent for Asians. "It's tough because we are seen as being either inconsequential or that we're not even really Americans," says Chinese-American writer Helen Zia. It's forcing school systems to adjust quickly to new fault lines. In Maryland's Montgomery County outside Washington, D.C., the schools went from mostly white in the 1990s to 60 percent minorities today. Superintendent Jerry Weast dropped class sizes, boosted literacy programs and now sends pamphlets to parents in six different languages. "If you don't have a plan to accommodate the diversity and the poverty and the language, your community is gonna have a train wreck," Weast says. The census bureau has long predicted that whites would drop below 50 percent of the population by the year 2050. Experts say the new data suggest that shift could come far sooner.
Poster Comment: As a refugee from NYC I'd like to give a heads up my fellow white posters. Before you dismiss me as a white nationalist, KKK'er, xenophobe, etc., let me tell you that when the minority becomes the majority in your neck of the woods - and it will - things get ugly fast. I'm at the age, and in such a geographical location, that I won't see the ugly South African-like change that's coming here. But for those younger than me, I wish you well. All the stories about the nice minority folks you know will fade faster than ice in the August sun once you are out numbered. So before you dismiss white groups (the new British National Party) who choose to organize along color lines, ask yourself why is it OK with the MSM when black and Hispanic groups do the same thing? The answer should be evident, but I'm sure it will remain unanswered by most for fear of being called nasty names. Deny the coming reality at the expense of your family and nation.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
The 'train wreck' is not having English as our language. Eff accommodating all these a-holes.
My decision not to have children is looking wiser by the minute. As for my nephews and nieces..? They're screwed.
It is a wise decision, IMO.
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