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Trump Hides, Sends Jeff Sessions Out to Announce the End of DACA

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)9/05/2017 11:54:50 am PDT

re: #52 KGxvi

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.

Well the thing with Hispanics is many still identify as white. Honestly, this is just part of how a country changes. In the early years of the Republic, the country was predominately white, Protestant, and of Northern European background. By century’s end, we had more Catholics and were starting to see Eastern and Southern Europeans too. That’s how I see the change.