The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
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The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
The narrative that nonwhite people will soon outnumber white people is not only divisive, but also false.
theatlantic.com
12:04 PM · Jun 13, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/myth-majority-minority-america/619190/
In recent years, demographers and pundits have latched on to the idea that, within a generation, the United States will inevitably become a majority-minority nation, with nonwhite people outnumbering white people. In the minds of many Americans, this ethno-racial transition betokens political, cultural, and social upheaval, because a white majority has dominated the nation since its founding. But our research on immigration, public opinion, and racial demography reveals something quite different: By softening and blurring racial and ethnic lines, diversity is bringing Americans together more than it is tearing the country apart.
The majority-minority narrative contributes to our national polarization. Its depiction of a society fractured in two, with one side rising while the other subsides, is inherently divisive because it implies winners and losers. It has bolstered white anxiety and resentment of supposedly ascendant minority groups, and has turned people against democratic institutions that many conservative white Americans and politicians consider complicit in illegitimate minority empowerment. At the extreme, it nurtures conspiratorial beliefs in a racist “replacement” theory, which holds that elites are working to replace white people with minority immigrants in a “stolen America.”
The narrative is also false. By rigidly splitting Americans into two groups, white versus nonwhite, it reinvents the discredited 19th-century “one-drop rule” and applies it to a 21st-century society in which the color line is more fluid than it has ever been.
In reality, racial diversity is increasing not only at a nationwide level but also within American families—indeed within individual Americans. Nearly three in 10 Asian, one in four Latino, and one in five Black newlyweds are married to a member of a different ethnic or racial group. More than three-quarters of these unions are with a white partner. For more and more Americans, racial integration is embedded in their closest relationships.
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Spanish language in background, LatinX one or more of the Latin American countries. All these demographic groups are self identififed.
Obviously L/H can be any possible mix or nonmix of white, indigenous American, and every other race that arrived in Latin America or were from Spanish speaking enclaves around the world, i.e., all races. Since a lot of Spanish speaking Europeans and other Hispanic whites spread around the world, though, and in many places tended to intermarry with other white people, incuding the U.S., a significant percentage of Hispanic/LatinX identify white, while some others who are white refuse to differentiate. 
Obviously, this significantly undercounts whites and thus messes up all discussions of racial percentages. Which these days almost always ignore it.
are greater with the largest, dominant demo. In America that's white. 
And after all, racial pride is no more exclusive to minority groups struggling for their rightful place in society than humanity's appalling histories of inhumanity are exclusive to whites.
As I said, some do choose to refuse to choose white or nonwhite, or where possible to identify with a "both" choice as a statement of inclusiveness and egalitarianism. But tyically these groups tend to lean conservative and inclined like conservatives in general to differentiate.
