Caucasians may be a technical minority shortly after the mid-century mark, if things keep going as they have been - the Hispanic population is blowing up, etc. I don't particularly care, TBH. It'll probably mean a more racially diverse presidency, which should prove interesting on issues like race, immigration, disenfranchisement, the courts etc. Just because the 2010 census says one thing, that doesn't mean the 2050 census will strongly resemble it.
538's take:
The United States is changing rapidly. The oldest baby boomers are into their retirement years, and the median age of the U.S. population is climbing. At the same time, each generation is more racially and ethnically diverse than the previous one. For the foreseeable future, the U.S. will grow older, more Hispanic and more Asian. But why wait — where can we go now to see what the U.S. will look like in future decades?
The place to see the future is Las Vegas, whose demographics today look most like what the U.S. overall will look like in 2060.
The latest population estimates for every county in the U.S., released Thursday by the Census Bureau, confirm this. The figures — which include breakdowns by age, race and ethnicity — provide a snapshot of what the U.S. looked like in 2016. But they also provide a glimpse of the future: By combining this new data with previously released population projections, also from the Census Bureau, we can identify the places in 2016 that looked the most like the America of the future.
More at the link:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/40 ... las-vegas/
