Published 11 August 2021 at 15.56
Abroad. The number of white people is expected to decline for the first time in the latest census in the United States. The country was not long ago overwhelmingly white – but now whites are less than 60 percent of the population.
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Whites with a European background made up about 85 percent of the U.S. population until 1965, when the so-called Hart-Celler Act, after intense lobbying, was hammered through and opened up for extensive third-world immigration.
The Washington Post now reports that the first results from the 2020 US Census will be presented later this week. .
According to the left-liberal newspaper, which itself has been a driving force in changing the population in the country, the figures show that the number of inhabitants in the United States increased by 7.4 percent between 2010 and 2020. Growth is not known, of which half Hispanics.
For the first time, the country's white population is declining in absolute numbers. The proportion of whites in the population is below 60 percent and among those under 18, whites are already in the minority.
By 2045, white Americans are estimated to be a minority in their own country.
According to preliminary figures, Asians in the United States have doubled, from 3 percent in 2010 to 6 percent in 2020. However, the proportion of blacks remains stable at 12.5 percent.