New census data confirm that some major metropolitan areas flipped from majority white to majority populations of minorities during the past decade.
White people are now in the minority in 46 of the nation's 366 metro areas, including New York, Washington, San Diego, Las Vegas and Memphis, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
That number is up from 32 in 2000, 10 in 1990 and nine in 1980, Frey said.
The changes are a result of relatively slow growth among the white population, white people moving outside metropolitan areas, and huge increases in minority populations, especially Hispanic and Asian, he said.
Recent analysis also showed white children are in the minority in 10 states.
"[The 2010 Census figures] show we’re becoming a more diverse nation, especially in our metropolitan areas, and it's filtering out from there," Frey said.
The Census Bureau previously released the data for cities, counties and states, but data calculated for metropolitan areas and regions might give people a more accurate understanding of where they live, Frey said.
For example, while the population of the city of Atlanta grew by about 3,500, the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta metro area, as the Census Bureau calls it, grew by more than 1 million. The Houston and Dallas areas also had growth of more than 1 million, while the Phoenix and Riverside, California, areas both added more than 900,000.
See the fastest-growing metro areas.
"As we become much more of a suburban nation, the kind of glue that puts the community together is the idea of the metropolitan community," he said.
Looking at metro areas also can offer a deeper view of how people live in different areas. Frey has used statistics about metropolitan areas to calculate the most segregated areas in the country. In terms of white and black, the most segregated areas were around Milwaukee, New York, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland.
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D.Barbour, I hope you find another country, but the truth of the matter is, no country in the world is looking for your kind...except maybe libya?
A civilization is built around a common language, common cultural heritage and common racial stock; it cannot long endure the incursion of alien minorities who refuse to assimilate, cling to their old languages and ways, and form insular enclaves.
In the greatest city in our Republic, there are quarters where you will scarcely hear English spoken. The Aliens have founded newspapers, hung signs, and you can hear their strange songs in foreign tongues from every window. Is this America? Is it worth sacrificing our cultural heritage for cheap sweatshop labor?
I tell you, I see nothing but doom for the America we once knew when I look at the numbers of Irish and Italians reflected in the 1920 Census.
They taught us to practice responsible birth giving. But then, the media decides to flood a few countries with old-fashioned 3rd worlders. It all sounds fishy to me. This will require a full-scale revolution. And, when that revolution comes, please remember that Mainstream Media is mostly responsible for the conspiracy.
Answer: Make more babies.
It's fun – it's retro – It's egocentric posterity fulfilling !
It should be all the rage – now hop to it bunnies !
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What in the hell are you rambling about?
Wow, those must be really strong drugs.
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charlie – go back and have another drink and stop this blogging stuff. We have another show to do and the goddesses are getting cranky.
Bama and Jessica,
I think he is making veiled racist comments about black people.
@Dead Simple, I think they should start the euthanization with you. Please forward the address of your trailer park.
Thats perfect! Well said....
Pot, meet kettle.
Never heard of mooslems... I guess they skipped over that one in school.
Somebody is afraid of King Kong. Not sure what any of this has to do with the article though... well, any article for that matter. I didn't know we were currently being invaded by animals, especially mooslems... whatever that is. *googles mooslems*
Well... I suppose there's some truth in your message although I have to express that you're fighting against a genetic inevitability since albinism is a genetic recessive mutation that occurs occasionally in nature as an anomaly. From a scientific perspective how do you purpose the delay the inevitability? Lets say hypothetically there were only caucasians in the US. The fact would be that the DNA of caucasians with dark hair, brown eyes, and darker colored skin, would absorb into it the the DNA of blonde, blue-eyed, pale caucasians within a relatively short period of time, once again causing the palest of caucasians to disappear. Would you purpose that the blue-eyed caucasians protect themselves from the brown-eyed caucasians? Please don't answer that. Based on your history I already know the answer. None the less, brown/black skin is dominant and although there are scientist working hard to change that, there's nothing that can be done to reverse millions of years of evolution.
This brings to mind an even more perplexing question which is what physical environment or event actually produced white people in numbers large enough to be recognized as a distinct group. The reason this question is so perplexing is because that environmental factor seems to have subsided which is evidence in the rapidly decreasing number of caucasians world-wide. BTW, there were some gross errors in your video but what else is new.