Census Data Reveals The Changing Face Of America

Census figures reveal a new reality in America's classrooms, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. Minority populations are climbing everywhere.

"The white population, I wouldn't say is fading into the background, but it is becoming the older, less fertile part of the population," says demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute.

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Comments

[mabinog]

shhhhhhh, don't tell Limbaugh, Beck, Buchannan, et. al. they will go off their nut.

[clearthinker2008]

Let's be honest, here in Georgia Mexicans who don't speak a lick of English (which makes me question their legality) have all the construction jobs. They (white business owners) won't hire any black guys. They lie and say blacks are lazy. They use this as an excuse to hire the Mexican at cut rate pay.

So it is partly the Mexicans fault and partly the business owners fault. American isn't unlimited in it's resources, and other Countries are going to have to start improving their job situations so their people will want to live in their Countries.

Unemployment is sky high for African American men, yet every Mexican that crosses the boarder can find a job. I understand why they come, I understand why people hire them, however just because I understand it doesn't make it right or blameless. American companies are destroying us, by shipping half our jobs oversees, and hiring people who are not legal citizens to work the other half.

African American laziness is a myth that began when slave owners didn't think we worked hard enough for our "zero" pay. Often they uttered this words on horseback while while they enjoyed a nice cool lemonade, while slaves was picking cotton 12 - 14 hours a day. It's almost Rovian type myth.

[JScott]

Not news in Calif. it's been that way for years now. And all this other crap unrelated. History has shown that as succeeding generations become more 'Americanized' they will have less offspring.
This is the future so get used to it. Altho it would be a better world if there were fewer people no matter what the race/ethnicity/income/econ status, but in the public sphere we don't discuss that, just continue to think that populations will always increase and develop even more policies and utilize resources to accomodate that, regardless of the enviromental consequenes, some outta the box thinking is needed.

[UnionJok]

I am less interested in the "face" of America, than in our "heart", "mind", "soul", or "spirit".

[clearthinker2008]

Oh..I can smell the fear. This is to remind the white voters not to vote for 0.

[MARTYB]

I rather like the US as it "was" on a population /cultural slant, though without the attendant racism. Having been to and lived in more than a few 2nd and 3rd world countries, i have no desire for OUR country to "devolve" into one of those "Balkanized" countries. Right now we can and should stop the process of being linguistically/culturally "patchworked", it leads only to trouble and with our history it could make Rwanda look good in comparison.

[ZimboChick]

Travel more.

[ceasenake]

"If you don't have a plan to accommodate the diversity and the poverty and the language, your community is gonna have a train wreck,"

"Gonna"? He's an educator, right? Anyway, the train wreck has already happened in a lot of places.

[neesy08]

this is what happens when whites are more interested in making lots of money and maintaining their lifestyles, abort their babies, and have less of them.

[cardineau]

If this trend gets rid of the ignorant and close-minded republicans, I'm all for it. I'd be proud to be a liberal/populist brown society rather than the white racist one we have in the republican controlled southern states..

[rigveda]

Dream on....the non-whites moving here are neither liberals nor populists!

[saltpeter]

What people need to first realize is that with NAFTA the US has tied it's economic destiny up with Canada and Mexico. If you find fault with the foregone outcome, then rethink the policy. And look at the full picture casting judgement. For example, additionally with the rise of hispanics in smaller towns is the fact that there is another statistic that is being left out-- that of white flight. But not the white flight we think of from the 1970's and '80s but the flight of, particularly, younger men and women who leave smaller and mid-sized cities(often once strong industrial-based centers) to live in bigger cities with better job opportunities and leave behind more unskilled jobs like contracting, landscaping, and service industry jobs (jobs the older white Americans left behind are not willing to do) that are left vacant. These are the types of jobs usually once reserved for younger adults and are now being filled very often by Hispanics.

This was be the effects of the highly suspect nature of NAFTA. Unlike it's European predecessor (the EU) NAFTA does not treat all parties equally. NAFTA assumes that resource-rich Canada will provide the raw materials, Mexico will provide the manufacturing labor to refine those materials into products and the US will provide the consumers. This high inequitable scenario can only really lead to the situation we find ourselves in. Rethink the policy or accept thbe consequences.

[gakabani]

NAFTA has nothing to do with 'our destiny', we Americans have been mingling with all Latin-America that now the cycle is closing. Similar to France in Algeria, the US has destroyed the future of many Latin-American countries by economical intervention and proxy-wars. Now their populations are in search of a better place here and they are now changing our own demographics. Be it Nicaragua, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Peru, etc. They all come here and they all change us. It is payback time Uncle Sam.

[arvay]

Handled creatively, this migration will be a big boost.

Most of these immigrants are ambitious people who want to make a better life for themselves and their children. Our gain is their nations' loss, and it's part of the damage we've done to them.

I suggest that the whites who are panicking read the history of other immigrant groups. The Irish, to name a very prominent group, caused huge crime problems in New York and a major rebellion that required federal troops to quell. Now they're integrated.

These immigrants aren't causing anything like the trouble the nation experienced from waves of poor and desperate Irish immigrants. (We took a big hit from British imperialism.)

America, your future is multi-colored. Get used to it. Societies advance because of the simulation of different people exchanging influences. Relatively "pure" people, like the Bushmen and Australian Aborigines, tend to show little change and progress.

They are model conservatives.

[ZimboChick]

I have one question for you salty - how old is NAFTA? Your analysis is focused on the wrong group (Hispanics). The Asians have the fastest growing population.....and I do not mean in Asia

[Heavenhelpusall]

Montgomery County Maryland is fortunate to have leadership with vision and responsive intervention. It will surely provide a path for other school districts to follow. They've embraced the community and are working to leverage the diversity of its students.

Lady Liberty must be smiling.

[gakabani]

I agree completely, minorities here in MC are rebuilding our infrastructure on a minimum wage and no rights. However, MC is trying its best to incorporate ALL of us into a constructive society. I have been on other parts of the nation and really dissapoints how our 'system' is failing. Pathetic, simply pathetic.

[Swerinjer]

America is falling apart for sure.

[wanj]

I'm curious, why do you think is the reason for this?

[saltpeter]

America is turning into a nation of the haves and have nots. It is losing it's Middle Class and that is not the fault of Mexicans (despite what Lou Dobbs says). That is a direct result of our policies and our inability to retain Middle Income jobs in this country so that corporations can reduce the cost of labor in order to line the pocket of stock holders and let the rest of America deal with the consequences of those lost secure jobs and the social and cultural upheavel that the corporate-sponsored policies (like NAFTA) causes. Most Mexicans don't want to leave their home country but competition from highly subsidized American produce and the Mexican govts desire to convert much of the farm land into industrial zones for cheap manufacturing jobs has forced these families off of farms that they have occupied for generations. Additionally, the lack of strong environmental laws have turned many towns in Mexico into cesspolls of manufacturing waste caused in large part by American industries.

And since those manufacturing jobs are creating impoverishment in Mexico instead creating middle wealth in America, small and mid-size towns in America suffer from a brain drain of their best and brightest young people moving off to wealthier big cities. There is an economic undercurrent to all of this anto focus on the victims instead of the perpetuators is doing corporate bidding and playing into their schemes.

[neesy08]

why? because it is becoming less white? tht is an insult.

[tel8034]

Hopefully in just 2 future generations RACISM will be a thing of the past.

[fignozzle]

a good hope.

[ohiomark]

Not if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have anything to say about it.

What would they do for a living?

[MajorKong]

Oh, I get it, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the only racists in America. Sure.

[totaldisbelief]

So that's why Idaho is filling up with white people.

[Paul]

Scared white people.

[MourningDude]

Heck, whites are already a minority here in Houston, and have been for years.

And the state of some schools is downright scary. The black students think anyone trying to study or succeed in school is "tryin to be white", and it's shunned in the black culture. The Hispanic kids couldn't care less about school. Many of their parents are uneducated laborers, and for them school is just free babysitting. And they are all quick to scream about 'racism' if anyone ever tries to discipline them.

Sure, those are stereotypes, and not every kid is like that, but that's what I've heard first hand from black parents that have had to deal with it, and from teachers than have had to deal with it.

Meanwhile the asian kids are top of the class, despite their minority status.

I'm convinced it's a cultural thing, more than anything.

I feel sorry for the good kids that get stuck in some of these 'problem' schools. When all the money is getting spent on bilingual classes and ESL programs and literacy programs, it doesn't leave much time or money left for giving the good ones a shot of achieving their potential.

[1jadednewyorker]

You are surely generalizing The MAJORITY of BLK students do not feel that another black students is acting white if they excel in academia.

How do I know? I used to teach in an urban/innercity school w/90% minority students. This is a very bad stereotype that just want go away.

You really need to stop perpetuating lies.