The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Electorate

[Guno צְבִי]

In all 50 states, the share of non-Hispanic White eligible voters declined between 2000 and 2018, with 10 states experiencing double-digit drops in the share of White eligible voters. During that same period, Hispanic voters have come to make up increasingly larger shares of the electorate in every state. These gains are particularly large in the Southwestern U.S., where states like Nevada, California and Texas have seen rapid growth in the Hispanic share of the electorate over an 18-year period.

Non-White eligible voters accounted for more than three-quarters of total U.S. electorate growth since 2000


https://www.pewresearch.org/2020/09...and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

from 4 years ago, much lower now

 

[T. A. Gardner]

In all 50 states, the share of non-Hispanic White eligible voters declined between 2000 and 2018, with 10 states experiencing double-digit drops in the share of White eligible voters. During that same period, Hispanic voters have come to make up increasingly larger shares of the electorate in every state. These gains are particularly large in the Southwestern U.S., where states like Nevada, California and Texas have seen rapid growth in the Hispanic share of the electorate over an 18-year period.

Non-White eligible voters accounted for more than three-quarters of total U.S. electorate growth since 2000


https://www.pewresearch.org/2020/09...and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/

Why is this necessarily a good thing?

Why is this relevant to anything?

It seems if anything, this is just another form of racism rearing its ugly head.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Why are the numbers of white people declining, and why are nonwhite numbers increasing? The answer is basic demography: births, deaths and immigration.

White women have an average of 1.7 children over their lifetimes, while Latina women average 2.2. The total fertility rates of blacks, Asians and American Indians are in between. So whites have fewer births than all nonwhite groups.

There are also big differences in age structure. Sixty-two percent of Latinas 15 years of age or older are of childbearing age. Only 42% of white women fall into this group. Latinos also have lower mortality rates than whites. Demographers call this the “epidemiological paradox.”


The future of whiteness
The aging white population, alongside a more youthful minority population, especially in the case of Latinos, will result in the U.S. becoming a majority-minority country in around 2044.

The demographic shift in the U.S. has resulted in many whites proclaiming that they are losing their country, and that they already are or will soon become a minority group.

In her research on working-class whites in rural Louisiana, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild observes that many whites feel frustrated and betrayed, like they are now strangers in their own land. In Trump, they saw a white man who brought them together to take their country back. Hochschild points out that at a Trump campaign rally, whites held signs with slogans such as “TRUMP: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” and “SILENT MAJORITY STANDS WITH TRUMP.”

 

[T. A. Gardner]

None of that addresses or answers the questions I posed above.

Right now, guno, what you are putting out borders on racist and likely is a form of racist bigotry.