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The US white majority will soon disappear forever

  • Written by Dudley Poston, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
The non-Hispanic white population is not growing as quickly as other groups in the U.S.Lightfield Studios/shutterstock.com

Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the Colonial period, the U.S. has been predominantly white.

But the white share of the U.S. population has been dropping, from a little under 90% in 1950 to 60% in...

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