Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States
 

"A new report this week found that whites are dying faster than they are being born now in 26 states, up from 17 just two years earlier, and demographers say that shift might come even sooner."

Fewer Births Than Deaths Among Whites in Majority of U.S. States

WASHINGTON — Deaths now outnumber births among white people in more than half the states in the country, demographers have found, signaling what could be a faster-than-expected transition to a future in which whites are no longer a majority of the American population.

The Census Bureau has projected that whites could drop below 50 percent of the population around 2045, a relatively slow-moving change that has been years in the making. But a new report this week found that whites are dying faster than they are being born now in 26 states, up from 17 just two years earlier, and demographers say that shift might come even sooner.

“It’s happening a lot faster than we thought,” said Rogelio Sáenz, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a co-author of the report. It examines the period from 1999 to 2016 using data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the federal agency that tracks births and deaths. He said he was so surprised at the finding that at first he thought it was a mistake.

The pattern first started nearly two decades ago in a handful of states with aging white populations like Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But fertility rates dropped drastically after the Great Recession and mortality rates for whites who are not of Hispanic origin have been rising, driven partly by drug overdoses. That has put demographic change on a faster track. The list of states where white deaths outnumber births now includes North Carolina and Ohio.

The change has broad implications for identity and for the country’s political and economic life, transforming a mostly white baby boomer society into a multiethnic and racial patchwork. A majority of the youngest Americans are already nonwhite and look less like older generations than at any point in modern American history. In California, 52 percent of all children are living in homes with at least one immigrant parent, Professor Sáenz said.

Another clue that the demography is marching forward came on Thursday, when the Census Bureau released population estimates that showed, for the first time, a decline in the white population. The drop was small, just 0.02 percent, or 31,516 people in the year ending last July. But a demographer at the bureau, Molly Cromwell, said that it was real, and followed a 9,475 person drop the year before. That one was so small that it was essentially viewed as no change, she said.

What does it mean for the political map? Some experts say that rapid demographic change became a potent issue in the 2016 presidential race — and helped drive white voters to support Donald J. Trump.

Of the states where deaths now exceed births for whites, 13 voted for Mr. Trump and 13 voted for Hillary Clinton. Four are states that flipped from President Barack Obama in 2012 to Mr. Trump in 2016 — Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida. It is not clear how demographic change will affect politics in the future.

“People say demographics is destiny and there’ll be more people of color — all that is true,” said Jennifer Richeson, a social psychologist at Yale University. “But they also say the U.S. is going to become more progressive, and we don’t know that. We should not assume that white moderates and liberals will maintain current political allegiances, nor should we expect that the so-called nonwhite group is going to work in any kind of coalition.”

At its most basic, the change is about population, but each state experiences it differently.

Florida was the first state where white deaths outstripped births around 1993, largely because it was drawing a lot of retirees. But its population has been one of the fastest growing in the nation. Retirees have kept coming, replenishing the white population, and its large Hispanic population has helped lift the state over all. The median age for Hispanics in the United States is 29, prime for child bearing, compared with 43 for whites.

Yeah so whites ARE the minorities. Time to kill any and all affirmative action :thumbsup

I remember when I was a kid my dad told me that Asian's would take over the world.
Not by force, just by walking.

He was on point as usual.

If you are interested in that sort of thing, there is a Netflix documentary series called Wild Wild West which is about the Rashneesh group that moved into Oregon and tried to take over part of the state. It's a wild, crazy story that all happened in the 80's, but the thing that is relevant today is how the Rashneesh grew in power. They didn't do it with force, they did it with money, elections and moving people around. When you watch it, it is hard to not draw parallels to what is going on in Europe today.

Yes and the most bizzare thing is that a large part of the so called "progressive" electorate is cheering the demise of their own culture and heritage as if it was a good thing.

I don't think there's any other species on the planet in the history of the world that would cheer for their own demise.

So all white progressives are not only "race traitors" in your eyes, but also want the white race to die out because they don't follow the alt-right plan for genocide of muslims, Asians, Latinos & blacks to prop up the white race.

You are aware that, no matter the "race", all humans share 99.9998 percent genes with each other right?

We're demographically doomed then . . .

Oh yes I'm sure there's a "hidden agenda" for "genocide", I'm sure that's the reason for White flight where people actually escape the unwanted "diversity" that's pushed on them day and night. The same which happens with Blacks once their neighborhoods become majority Hispanic. That must be it.

You Lunatics are so unhinged that anybody raising concern over a distinct people of distinct heritage and their right to live among people like themselves, And I'm talking specifically about those that don't happen to be of "color" (which, in contradiction, you Lunatics would cheer for) puts you into a meltdown mode right away.

Save your cheap labels for a rainy day.

they are truly misguided fucked up people for sure

Well done for completely failing to understand what he wrote there.

well the white man has 2 choices:

1) isolate like in japan...the market will shrink...there will be less and less people to cover for pensions...the work force will become more and more expensive etc...

so all in all, there will be less money

2) mix


pick an option and enjoy the consequences :thumbsup

Looks like white americans are shooting into the wrong hole . . .

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