Contrary to the accolades barely contained in this anti-white hit piece, you will be encouraged after reading the majority of comments following it which openly condemn the idea of a majority, non-white, multiracial population. — Ed.
Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographicgroup, wielding an impact on minority growth that challengestraditional notions of race.
The number ofmultiracial people rose 3.4 percent last year to about 5.2 million,according to the latest census estimates. First given the option in2000, Americans who check more than one box for race on census surveyshave jumped by 33 percent and now make up 5 percent of the minoritypopulation — with millions more believed to be uncounted.
Census data also show:
_More than half of the multiracial population was younger than 20 yearsold, a reflection of declining social stigma as interracial marriagesbecame less taboo.
_Interracial marriages increased threefold to 4.3 million since 2000, when Alabama became the last state to lift its unenforceable ban on interracial marriages. (The Supreme Courtbarred race-based restrictions on marriage in 1967.) About 1 in 13marriages are mixed race, with the most prevalent being white-Hispanic,white-American Indian and white-Asian.
_Due to declining immigration because of legal restrictions andthe lackluster economy, the growth rates of the Hispanic and Asianpopulations slowed last year to 3.2 percent and 2.5 percent,respectively, compared to multiracial people’s 3.4 percent. The blackpopulation rose at a rate of about 1 percent; the white population onlymarginally increased.