Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans
for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a
benchmark that heralds profound demographic change.
The NYTimes cites the disparity was tiny — only about 12,000
— and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration
from abroad. But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with
the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic,
black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a
minority nationwide within about three decades.
Over all, the number of non-Hispanic white Americans is
expected to begin declining by the end of this decade.
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