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08.22.2008 9:00 pm

Sunday Editorial: The new American majority

The U.S. Census Bureau has revised its forecast of when America’s “minority” population will overtake the “majority” white population. It now says we’ll have a “minority majority” in 33 years, in the year 2042, not 2050 as previously projected.

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08.14.2008 2:35 pm

Comparing America’s demographic future

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

demographics.jpgThere’s a lot of buzz today over a new Census report which estimates that whites will cease to hold majority status in the United States by 2042 — 17 years earlier than previously forecast. In 2050, whites will account for only…

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