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标 题: 这一天终于到来了
发信站: 水木社区 (Thu May 17 21:27:41 2012), 站内
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Most babies born in the United States belong for
the first time to racial or ethnic groups classified as minorities, the U.S
. Census Bureau said Thursday.
Among the roughly 4 million children born in the United States between July
2010 and June 2011, 50.4 percent were Hispanic, black, Asian-American or in
other minority groups -- up from 48.6 percent in the same period two years e
arlier and 49.5 percent when the decennial census was taken in April 2010, t
he bureau said.
In the July-to-June stretch, non-Hispanic white children accounted for less
than half the country\'s births. It\'s the first time that has ever happened.
Minorities still make up about 37 percent of the overall U.S. population, th
e bureau said, but they are a majority of the population in California, Hawa
ii, New Mexico, Texas and the District of Columbia.
Non-Hispanic whites will be outnumbered in the United States by 2042, the bu
reau projected.
Social scientists said the new status of newborns forming America\'s first \"m
ajority minority\" generation is a harbinger of change.
\"This is a watershed moment,\" Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Ch
erlin told The Washington Post. \"It shows us how multicultural we\'ve become.
\"
The shift is attributed in large part to an aging non-Hispanic white populat
ion, analysts said.
The median age for non-Hispanic whites is over 42, so many are beyond their
prime childbearing years.
By contrast, the median age for Hispanics is under 28. Blacks and Asians hav
e median ages in their early 30s.
Among non-Hispanic whites, births now barely exceed deaths, analysts said.
Last year 1,025 non-Hispanic whites were born for every 1,000 who died, comp
ared with a ratio of 3,940 births to 1,000 deaths for all other ethnic group
s, University of New Hampshire senior demographer Kenneth Johnson told The W
all Street Journal.
Data for 2010 show Hispanic women give birth to 2.4 babies on average, compa
red with 1.8 babies for non-Hispanic whites, the Pew Hispanic Center said.
African-Americans are the largest minority among adults over 50, but for any
one younger, Hispanics are the second-largest population group, after whites
of European descent, Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey told
the Journal.
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标 题: 这一天终于到来了
发信站: 水木社区 (Thu May 17 21:27:41 2012), 站内
WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Most babies born in the United States belong for
the first time to racial or ethnic groups classified as minorities, the U.S
. Census Bureau said Thursday.
Among the roughly 4 million children born in the United States between July
2010 and June 2011, 50.4 percent were Hispanic, black, Asian-American or in
other minority groups -- up from 48.6 percent in the same period two years e
arlier and 49.5 percent when the decennial census was taken in April 2010, t
he bureau said.
In the July-to-June stretch, non-Hispanic white children accounted for less
than half the country\'s births. It\'s the first time that has ever happened.
Minorities still make up about 37 percent of the overall U.S. population, th
e bureau said, but they are a majority of the population in California, Hawa
ii, New Mexico, Texas and the District of Columbia.
Non-Hispanic whites will be outnumbered in the United States by 2042, the bu
reau projected.
Social scientists said the new status of newborns forming America\'s first \"m
ajority minority\" generation is a harbinger of change.
\"This is a watershed moment,\" Johns Hopkins University sociologist Andrew Ch
erlin told The Washington Post. \"It shows us how multicultural we\'ve become.
\"
The shift is attributed in large part to an aging non-Hispanic white populat
ion, analysts said.
The median age for non-Hispanic whites is over 42, so many are beyond their
prime childbearing years.
By contrast, the median age for Hispanics is under 28. Blacks and Asians hav
e median ages in their early 30s.
Among non-Hispanic whites, births now barely exceed deaths, analysts said.
Last year 1,025 non-Hispanic whites were born for every 1,000 who died, comp
ared with a ratio of 3,940 births to 1,000 deaths for all other ethnic group
s, University of New Hampshire senior demographer Kenneth Johnson told The W
all Street Journal.
Data for 2010 show Hispanic women give birth to 2.4 babies on average, compa
red with 1.8 babies for non-Hispanic whites, the Pew Hispanic Center said.
African-Americans are the largest minority among adults over 50, but for any
one younger, Hispanics are the second-largest population group, after whites
of European descent, Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey told
the Journal.
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※ 来源:·水木社区 newsmth.net·[FROM: 115.238.35.*]
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