Usa, white under 60%: already a minority among the under 18s

United States increasingly multiracial and on the way to ‘overtaking’ whites by the current minorities. This is the picture that emerges from the 2020 census data, according to which in the last 10 years the population that defines itself as ‘white’ has decreased, for the first time, falling below 60%: from 63.7% in 2010 to 57.8%. And among the population under 18 there is already the ‘overtaking’ of the “black” population, which constitutes 52.7% of children and very young people. Data showing that America “is much more multiracial and much more ‘different’ in racial and ethnic terms than it has been measured in the past,” said Nicholas Jones, director of the Census Office for Race and Ethnicity Research. Bureau. The group that has grown the most is that of Hispanics, which has doubled its population in the last 30 years, reaching 62.1 million, or 18.7% of the total. Asians have also doubled their population since the 1990s, from 3% to the current 61.1%. And African Americans remain stable at 12.1%. Overall, the US population has grown 7.4% over the past 10 years, the second lowest growth ever recorded. Demographers predict that with this trend of diversification, the overtaking of minorities over ‘whites’ will take place around 2045. With Hispanics and Asians who will double their population between now and 2060, and the population that defines itself as belonging to more than one race which could triple, it will arrive, demographers still explain, in a situation in which there will not be a racial majority in the country. On the basis of the census data, the delegations of States to Congress are changed and these data will make the political battle that is unleashed after each census, the so-called redistricting, even more fierce. This is the remodeling of the electoral districts, through which above all the Republicans who, in the States where they have the majority, will do everything, as already happened in 2010, to cancel, or at least dilute, the greater presence of the electoral minorities, who traditionally vote democratic. In a traditionally republican state like Texas, for example, the census shows that Hispanics are one step away from demographic overtaking: Texans whites are 39.7% while Hispanics and Latinos 39.3%. Population growth, mainly due to growth among Hispanics, will give Texas two more seats in the House. As for cities, New York remains the largest in the country, with 8.8 million inhabitants, an increase of 7.7%. While the city that has grown the most in the last decade, by 11.2%, was Phoenix, which has become the fifth largest in America instead of Philadelphia.