White Americans under 18 are already ethnic minorities in the US ━ The European Conservative

Generation Z, Americans born between 1997 and 2012, will be the last generation in U.S. history to have a majority white population, with “Generation Alpha” (those born after 2010) poised to usher in a new “minority majority” age sometime in the mid-2040s, an analysis of census data has revealed

Ethnic minorities already make up more than half of the US population under the age of 18, according to the figures.

The analysis of census data by the DC-based Brookings Institution suggests that non-Hispanic whites, who today make up just under 60% of the population, will become a minority for the first time in history by 2045, underscoring the rapidly changing demographic makeup of the US

Written by William Frey, a senior fellow at the think tank, the analysis highlights stark demographic differences between America’s older and younger generations.

Note, for example, that non-Hispanic whites make up 77% of the 75-and-over population, 67% of the 55-64 population, 55% of the 35-44 cohort, and barely half of the 18. – Age group 24. Meanwhile, only 47% of those under 18 are non-Hispanic white.

“These patterns have resulted in a ‘racial generation gap,’ in which the younger population, most influenced by immigration in recent decades, is much more diverse than older age groups,” Frey notes.

In just over 20 years, according to the analysis, the majority of the US population will be made up of the following ethnic minorities: Hispanics (24.6%), African Americans (13%), Asians (7.9%) and 3 .8% for multiracial populations.

The demographic projection, for some, among them diverse intellectuals, philosophers, authorsi politiciansparticularly from France, but also from the whole West, validates the idea of ​​a “great replacement”, which postulates that ethnic Europeans in Europe and North America are gradually being replaced by mass migration from Asia and the South global

For more information on the concept, which was originally proposed decades ago by the famous French writer Renaud Camus, see Essay by Rod Dreher published a few days ago by The European Conservative.