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texasfiddler

(1,990 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:11 AM Jun 2018

America's white population shrinks for the first time - U.S. Census Bureau

The number of non-Hispanic white people in the United States decreased for the first time in the nation's history between 2015 and 2016, according to new figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data show the nation's white population is aging rapidly, as Americans delay their decision to have a family and as the flow of foreign immigrants from European countries ebbs. At the same time, minority populations are growing much faster, hastening a demographic shift that has been decades in the making.
The average non-Hispanic white American is 43.5 years old, according to the new data. The average Hispanic American, by contrast, is 29.3 years old.....

As a white southern male, this makes me happy. Faux news base supply is shrinking. Keep it up trump

[link:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americas-white-population-shrinks-for-the-first-time-as-nation-ages/ar-AAyWeVY?ocid=spartandhp|

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America's white population shrinks for the first time - U.S. Census Bureau (Original Post) texasfiddler Jun 2018 OP
Trump is the backlash to this JI7 Jun 2018 #1
I agree, Trump is definitely a backlash against this and WePurrsevere Jun 2018 #12
As a white, southern female get the red out Jun 2018 #2
Here is a working link (to The Hill's article) BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #3
I took the apostrophe out of the link- thanks texasfiddler Jun 2018 #6
Great! BumRushDaShow Jun 2018 #7
This will drive the white Supremacists crazy! avebury Jun 2018 #4
Warms my heart... fuck those racist pigs!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #5
LOL. I may have to tweet this to a relative who Ilsa Jun 2018 #8
Hence the zero tolerance policy. Cattledog Jun 2018 #9
The problem here is Loki Liesmith Jun 2018 #10
Maybe not. scarletlib Jun 2018 #13
Certainly a possibility but Loki Liesmith Jun 2018 #14
I second your happiness at this information. scarletlib Jun 2018 #11
Causing Donald Trump to fill his Depends bigly Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 #15
The quicker they catch up to the whites (and I am white) the better Quixote1818 Jun 2018 #16
This makes me smile Gothmog Jun 2018 #17

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
12. I agree, Trump is definitely a backlash against this and
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:01 AM
Jun 2018

other factors like women, POC, non-Christian and the LGBT community increasing their voice and strength too.

Cult45 followers are rapidly losing control. This scares the heck out of them and they feel threatened. Unfortunately scared threatened people will often latch on to hateful and stupid ideas and get in line to do/allow truly horrible things sold to them by power and money seeking con artists as a 'fix'. Cult45 is one of those con artists and he deliberately plays directly to those fears just as Hitler and other horrendous a'holes have over the centuries.

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
2. As a white, southern female
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:16 AM
Jun 2018

That makes me very happy too! I am relieved for our country, and especially for my two young nieces who are not white.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
4. This will drive the white Supremacists crazy!
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:16 AM
Jun 2018

They do not want to become a member of a minority class and I really think that is what is driving the anti-Central/South American immigrant position. They don't think that white women are having enough babies which drives their hatred of the woman's right to choose whether they want to have a child, be on birth control or have an abortion.

Ilsa

(61,697 posts)
8. LOL. I may have to tweet this to a relative who
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:26 AM
Jun 2018

Runs around telling white people to have more babies.

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
10. The problem here is
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:40 AM
Jun 2018

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the definition of whiteness expands to fit the times. Cf the case of the Irish.

Well off Latinos and Asians are already “white adjacent”. Expect that to continue in order to maintain the dominance of whites in society.

scarletlib

(3,418 posts)
11. I second your happiness at this information.
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 08:59 AM
Jun 2018

As a white southern woman, I can't wait until we are a minority. I am sick, sick, sick to death of racism and white supremacy, and hate. As our numbers go down I hope we can end this. I only hope I live long enough to see it.

Quixote1818

(28,959 posts)
16. The quicker they catch up to the whites (and I am white) the better
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:53 AM
Jun 2018

That will end anyone running for National Office with a Trump (white supremacist) type of agenda.

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