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When Minorities Are in the Majority

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Posted on Aug 14, 2008

Census data project that in just 34 years, today’s minority groups together will make up the majority of the U.S. population, outnumbering “non-Hispanic whites.” Contrary to what Lou Dobbs and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps would have you believe, the change in demographics has more to do with procreation than immigration.


New York Times:

The census calculates that by 2042, Americans who identify themselves as Hispanic, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander will together outnumber non-Hispanic whites. Four years ago, officials had projected the shift would come in 2050.

The main reason for the accelerating change is significantly higher birthrates among immigrants. Another factor is the influx of foreigners, rising from about 1.3 million annually today to more than 2 million a year by midcentury, according to projections based on current immigration policies. 

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By tomack, August 18, 2008 at 4:56 am Link to this comment

Heil Saggy! Heil Saggy!

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By Lester Ness, August 15, 2008 at 3:21 am Link to this comment
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Probably the paler hispanics will be re-defined as White.  That’s what’s happened with Italians, Greeks, etc. in the past.

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By niloroth, August 14, 2008 at 3:06 pm Link to this comment

saggy,

please go and goose step your ignorant self out of here and go back to reading stormfront.  I have zero respect for anyone who cites holocaust denial websites.

Idiot.

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By Keith, August 14, 2008 at 1:23 pm Link to this comment
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I guarantee the issue of immigration will soon follow on the campaign trail.

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By tomack, August 14, 2008 at 11:03 am Link to this comment

Saggy, who’s dense? Cellar is dead, has been for decades. Are you telling me a dead man runs this major Zionist movement. I said ALIVE….who ALIVE is running this grand Zionist conspiracy. WHO? 

I have yet to meet a conspiracy freak, any conspiracy freak, that has provided actual PROOF of their delusions. You are no different

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By tomack, August 14, 2008 at 10:37 am Link to this comment

Saggy, who are they? Give me names. Actual people. Specific personages.  And I don’t mean the dead ones like Rothschild, that’s old hat, I mean actual living people who are these dreaded Zionists. 

If one is to create a case, one MUST provide Factual evidence. Then one must present that evidence.

Who, Saggy, who let the dogs out?

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By tomack, August 14, 2008 at 10:02 am Link to this comment

Aegrus:  right on the money.

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By yellowbird2525, August 14, 2008 at 9:58 am Link to this comment

oh and at Town Hall meeting 3 ST legislatures told illegals they will get to keep their drivers licenses illegally given to them by Gov; even flying them in from other states; and stated that any & all illegals coming into the country will be given drivers licenses & money, cars, trucks; no 2nd class citizens HERE. And yet: they “pass a law” to make birth certs to get drivers licenses now “supposedly” to keep illegals out; they are laughing as they say next we will put in a SALES TAX on the people; (citizens); and per the land use: property zoned for 2 homes are asked by county to put 3 on it; state says we are going to put 6 on them because of all the people coming here. Screeching you HAVE to let us build; it is the LAW! at meeting to put up yet more apartment complexs; a “front” for a supposedly 1 person with “big money”; in reality they are claiming “big money” from multiple folks; public domain was legalized theft but hey, Gov has been doing it to it’s citizens for years now; BTW, like Ralph Nadar’s ? WHEN ARE THE MEDIOCRE GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT? the PROBLEM is in our polical parties who are cohabitating with Corps; you seen 1 tree you’ve seen them all: cut down all trees, wipe out all wildlife; disregard, & disrespect all folks who are citizens & think otherwise; according to Gerald Rivera “they” haven’t yet decided if the blacks or browns will get the roofing jobs”; the LOVE of money (not money) but the LOVE of it, is the ROOT of all evil; this country’s political parties have unfortunately carried this off to the nth degree; the “securing” our borders, the “farce” of “building a wall” the total LIES of “protecting” it’s citizens: you are completely & totally expendable & our lawless leaders are less than dependable.

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By Aegrus, August 14, 2008 at 9:17 am Link to this comment

I find it really interesting how these studies are periodically thrown out into the public. Honestly, 1) It’s a flawed speculation and 2) Only serves to put fear in ethnocentric anglo-saxons.

These studies always just focus on numbers instead of really looking at how populations work. Really, we should be trying to limit our population instead of looking at how many non-whites might, maybe, theoretically, possibly might inhabit America in thirty years.

Give people economic opportunity, educational opportunity and sex education and you’ll see a significant drop in births, which will be good for the environment, the economy, our work force, our government and increase the quality of our lives as Americans.

People who go to college for eight years don’t get married with twelve kids at 18. When you fight inequality, populations become more steady and controlled growth can be sustained.

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By tomack, August 14, 2008 at 8:59 am Link to this comment

Saggy,
your comments are not worthy of response. I respond only to let you know this.

I gotta run, I’m being chased by verbally superior Jews. Shite, they almost caught me. It must of have been my superior Caucasian speed, powered by my six foot four inch superior Anglo frame that saved me. 

Ahh, what the hell, I will respond: “people like you” belong on a hardsrabble patch brewing your own hooch and skinning small game. That is all the response you are worthy of.

Go spread your division and hate elsewhere.

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By yellowbird2525, August 14, 2008 at 8:25 am Link to this comment

truth: when Clinton went to Mexico & $ passed hands & suddenly there constitution & article 25 no longer applied; corn flooded the markets there far cheaper than they could grow it (see this same scenario in country after country & even here in Everglades) SAME CORP"S folks: with our Gov right behind it all the way; forcing Mexicans to LOSE their lands, homes, and being forced to migrate; here in states: given $, given political preferences, soc security, no interest pay back when can loans, brand new cars/trucks/low income apartment complexs; while vets get NOTHING; and are discriminated against getting jobs; while urury laws are tossed along with collection calls; now “supposedly” yet another: if you have a low credit score we won’t hire you; so have to bring in immigrants; MISLED, DECEIT, HARMFUL ACTS to citizens; vets get 13 beds to “share” with needful women & kids; stripped of health benefits & pensions; claiming “no money” they are denied even medical supplies & good hospitals; and now, Oregon is going to pay for everyones college education with the understanding they will get better taxes on income tax; yet NO MONEY? Immigrants NOT the problem: the PROBLEM IS IN GOV. working with Corps AGIANST the citizens of the USA.

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By yellowbird2525, August 14, 2008 at 8:19 am Link to this comment

lets see: “no one else will do the work”; american’s incompetent, lazy, fall asleep on the job; all military personnel have mental problems (US Gov); quickly of course followed by their bed mate Corp’s saying they do not want to hire military personnel due to mental problems; claiming to be “broke” and blaming everyone else for “harming” the vets: claiming “they think we stole their land”; Absolut showing over 7/8’s of the USA “supposedly” being Mexico; TRUTH: in 1964 US Gov stated that we citizens could no longer work in the orchards or fields to pick fruits, berries; only “ag workers” who were immigrant workers like in Grapes of Wrath; in 1968 min wage in Oregon was $1.50 an hour; in 1969 billed $1.57 tax per person for “aid” to migrant workers as their wages so low; added again to this was $4.50+ tax supposedly for them again for better schools; don’t recall how long THIS particular taxes went on; USA paid Mexico for “land” supposedly taken way back when we became the USA;

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By tomack, August 14, 2008 at 7:41 am Link to this comment

And of course Kevin MacDonald is on an even keel, eh? This from Wickipedia:

Kevin B. MacDonald, (born January 24, 1944) is a professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach, best known for his use of evolutionary psychology to inform his study of Judaism as being what he claims is a “group evolutionary strategy”. MacDonald’s most controversial claim is his assertion that a suite of traits that he attributes to Jews, including higher-than-average verbal intelligence and ethnocentricism, have been eugenically derived throughout history to enhance the ability of Jews to out-compete non-Jews for resources while undermining the power and self-confidence of the white majorities in Europe and America.[1][2][3] MacDonald has been accused in one article of employing scapegoating techniques that resemble classical Nazism,[4] although MacDonald tries to distance himself from extremist organizations that have embraced his views.[5] Macdonald’s colleagues in his university’s Psychology Department have begun formally dissociating themselves from his views.[6]

I guess that means I should keep looking over my shoulder at every Jew I see—some of which work for me. I have never bought on to conspiricy theories of this nature.

Actually, what is wrong with “dark people” eventually outnumbering “light people”?

Please inform me.

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By mpierce, August 14, 2008 at 5:20 am Link to this comment
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Please fix your mistake.  The year 2042 is when the majority of Americans will NOT fit the description of non-Hispanic whites, or, as the article says, most Americans will outnumber non-Hispanic whites.

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