re: #9 Dr Lizardo

I know it’s been projected for quite some time that white people will become a minority in the US sometime this century - I forgot when.

I think what we’re seeing is obvious; the GOP is establishing the foundations for white minority rule going forward. A slightly softer version of South Africa’s former apartheid system, but a system that is essentially designed to perpetuate the (projected) white minority as the ruling class.

This is the endgame of GOP politics. The voter suppression efforts, the purging of voter rolls, ending DACA and I’m sure more immigration restrictions against non-Caucasians on the horizon.

By mid-century, whites (assuming the same definition as today, because “white” has changed quite a bit in this country over the years) will be a plurality. Pew projects that whites will be about 45% of the population by 2065. Also of interest is that they are projecting that the number of foreign born Hispanics will drop to 31% (currently at 47%) and will be passed by Asians (currently 26% rising to 38%).

Those numbers don’t consider mixed race/ethnicity births that are also likely to rise sharply between now and then. Nor do they, I suspect, consider whether someone who is fourth or fifth generation Latino will end up being considered white.