Jamelle Bouie on the fallacy of the USA becoming "majority-minority"

[Mr. Morden]

The author has riffed on these same themes before, but here's the latest entry:

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[Mr. Morden]

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A followup on this: An increasing number of Hispanics identified as "white" on the 2010 census forms who had not identified as white on the 2000 census:

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[Kevin]

I think an example of the future of America would be people like Barack Obama or George Zimmerman(for a lack of a better example). People who may appear to be "non-white" but are basically culturally "white".

I mean it's already a fallacy imo to point to a future U.S. as being a non-white majority. Ex. many "white" Americans already have mixed ancestries. Case in point-Elizabeth Warren who has Native American ancestry.

While even in the U.S. and other new world countries like Canada and Australia many if not most entirely European descended people can count multiple ethnicities among their lineage.

For instance, my great-great grandparents from what I know only married those of the same ethnicity(German or Irish). While my grandparents intermarried with those of different European ethnicities. My German descended grandfather married my grandmother who is mainly of British descent.  While on my other side my Irish grandfather married my Dutch grandmother.

So imo this isn't a really radical change at all. Esp. considering that past immigrants like Germans, Poles, and Italians were regarded in the same ways as Hispanics are today.

[Beet]

What this article proves is that race is entirely a social construct. That being said, if the Census is to have racial categories, they should have a category that Hispanics can identify with besides white. A large number of Hispanics also put mixed/other, which is more accurate for the darker-skinned looking mestizos. In Peru, most mestizos identify more with their Amerindian side. (In Argentina on the other hand, they see themselves as European.)