{"id":5182,"date":"2004-03-18T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:16:24","slug":"u-s-to-be-nearly-half-minority-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/03\/18\/u-s-to-be-nearly-half-minority-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/sns-ap-america-in-2050,1,5341984.story?coll=chi-news-hed\">U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050<\/a><br \/>\nBy GENARO C. ARMAS<br \/>\nAssociated Press Writer<br \/>\nMarch 18, 2004, 8:53 AM CST<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The nation&#8217;s Asian and Hispanic populations will roughly triple in size by midcentury, when minority groups overall will be nearly equal in number with whites, the Census Bureau says. <\/p>\n<p>Whites, now about 69 percent of the population, would comprise 50.1 percent of U.S. residents by 2050, bureau projections released Thursday show. <\/p>\n<p>Immigration should continue to play a key role in sparking the explosive growth among Asians and especially Hispanics, said Greg Spencer, a demographer at the Census Bureau. <\/p>\n<p>These demographic shifts will occur as the national population balloons to 420 million at midcentury, rising nearly 50 percent from 2000. Americans will get a bit grayer, too, by 2050 &#8212; nearly 21 percent of residents will be age 65 or older, compared with 12 percent now. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. to Be Nearly Half Minority by 2050 By GENARO C. ARMAS Associated Press Writer March 18, 2004, 8:53 AM CST The nation&#8217;s Asian and Hispanic populations will roughly triple in size by midcentury,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}