Census results show white children now minority in 10 states

According to the 2010 census, white children are now the minority under age 18, in 10 US states and and 35 large metro areas. The number of white children in metro areas including Atlanta, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Orlando, Florida; and Phoenix, Arizona, fell below that of other children in the last decade as the population of white children nationwide declined by 4.3 million.

The decline occurred as a new group called “new minorities” — Hispanics, Asians and other racial groups apart from whites, blacks and American Indians — grew by 5.5 million. Hispanics registered an increase of 4.8 million, which kept the nation’s overall child population from declining.

This shows a huge change in the racial makeup of the United States, and shows showing that Hispanics are the nation’s largest and fastest growing minority group. Hispanics now comprise 23% of children, up from 12% in 1990, while whites now comprise 53% of youth, down from nearly 70% in 1990.

And it’s now predicted that by 2042, whites will become the minority. “Slower growth among whites owes in part to their lower fertility rate — about 1.9 births per white woman, compared with 3.0 births per Hispanic woman — as well as a relatively low contribution to population growth from immigration” the report stated.

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And from 2000, to 2009, only 15% growth in the immigrant population was attributable to whites, compared with 78% for Hispanics, Asians and other new minorities.” Aslo the report states, that the aging white population contributes to a lower growth rate because proportionately, fewer white women are in their child-bearing years.

“The median age of whites is 41, compared to 27 for Hispanics, 35 for Asians, and a staggering 20 for the population of more than one race. As a further reflection of these age differences by race and ethnicity, just one-fifth of U.S. whites are under age 18, compared with one-third of all Hispanics.”

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the decline in white children reduced the growth rate of the overall child population, from 13.7% in the 1990s to 2.6% in the 2000s. Though variation from state to state in child growth was considerable, on the whole, 46 states registered declines in their white child populations.

Not surprisingly, most of the states that experienced growth in populations of minority children are the ones where white children are in the minority: California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Maryland.