Is white majority dead? It's risky to misread demographic trends
Non-whites Americans are projected to become the numerical majority by the mid-century, but the waters are muddy from assimilation, intermarriage and bureaucracy.
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IN the aftermath of the election of the African-American (in fact, bi-racial) Barack Obama as US president in 2008, political pundits speculated that his victory marked the emergence of a new coalition of non-white American men that, in addition to Blacks, included Hispanics, Asian-Americans, Muslims, feminists and LGBTs.
These groups only needed to band together and help transform American politics. Young people, Blacks, Hispanic and other minorities were leading a revolution!
Then came the presidential win of a manly white man in 2016 over a leading feminist, challenging the notion embraced by many Democrats that they were on the right side of inexorable demographic trends.
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