If this doesn't alert white Americans to the fact thatwe are deliberately and rapidly being phased out of "our" country, I don't know what will.
N.H. population will change dramatically by mid-century Whites will no longer be the majority
By Margo Sullivan
Staff writer
It may be difficult to believe today, but by the middle of the 21st century, Hispanics and other minority groups will become the majority in the Granite State, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections.
Farzana Alamgir, principal planner with the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, said in a telephone interview yesterday that the change is part of a national trend.
Even though the state's population today is overwhelmingly made up of non-Hispanic whites, who outnumber other racial and ethnic groups by ratios ranging from 40-to-1 to 300-to-1, New Hampshire will mirror the national trend, and the demographic changes will happen.
"Yes, New Hampshire is very white today," Alamgir said.
But, she said, white birth rates are not keeping up with minority birth rates.
Whites are having two or fewer children, while other ethnic and racial groups are having four children on average, she said. Moreover, the numerical strength whites show today does not reflect the impending death rates.
Alamgir said the existing white population in New Hampshire is growing older. Based on the median age, which is now in the early 40s, planners can estimate these people have either already had children or are not going to have children, she said.
Alamgir said Southern New Hampshire, where more first- and second-generation immigrants are settling and raising families, will reflect the demographic changes more than other parts of the state.
The U.S. Census Bureau Thursday released its latest population projections, saying Americans will be older, more diverse and more populous by 2042.
According to the estimates, the U.S. population will rocket past the 400 million milestone in 2039. Three years later, minorities, which account for 35 percent of today's U.S. population, will become the majority.
By 2050, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other groups will comprise 54 percent of the population. About 60 percent of the new majority will be children.
Nationwide, the Hispanic population is expected to triple by the middle of the century, Alamgir said, and this is the ethnic group which will grow most in New Hampshire as well.
One in every three Americans will be Hispanic by 2050, the Census Bureau is projecting. By comparison, the white population will grow only slightly, and its share of the nation's population will decline. Blacks will account for 15 percent of the nation's population, compared with 14 percent today. Asians and Pacific Islanders will increase from about 5 percent to 9 percent of the population.
According to state population charts, the white population in Rockingham County grew by more than 53 percent between 1980 and 2005, climbing by more than 100,000 people.
The black population increased by more than 100 percent over the same time period, but blacks were still grossly outnumbered by whites  3,038 to 297,902.
Asian and Pacific Islanders also increased their presence in Rockingham County  growing from 772 to 5,168. Hispanics, who are not a race and are therefore already counted in with the white and other groups, are broken out separately for comparison, she said. Over the 25-year period, the Rockingham County Hispanic population increased from 1,226 to 5,377.
http://www.eagletribune.com/punewsnh/local_story_228204657.h tml?keyword=topstoryEdited by: Don Wassall
N.H. population will change dramatically by mid-century Whites will no longer be the majority
By Margo Sullivan
Staff writer
It may be difficult to believe today, but by the middle of the 21st century, Hispanics and other minority groups will become the majority in the Granite State, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections.
Farzana Alamgir, principal planner with the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, said in a telephone interview yesterday that the change is part of a national trend.
Even though the state's population today is overwhelmingly made up of non-Hispanic whites, who outnumber other racial and ethnic groups by ratios ranging from 40-to-1 to 300-to-1, New Hampshire will mirror the national trend, and the demographic changes will happen.
"Yes, New Hampshire is very white today," Alamgir said.
But, she said, white birth rates are not keeping up with minority birth rates.
Whites are having two or fewer children, while other ethnic and racial groups are having four children on average, she said. Moreover, the numerical strength whites show today does not reflect the impending death rates.
Alamgir said the existing white population in New Hampshire is growing older. Based on the median age, which is now in the early 40s, planners can estimate these people have either already had children or are not going to have children, she said.
Alamgir said Southern New Hampshire, where more first- and second-generation immigrants are settling and raising families, will reflect the demographic changes more than other parts of the state.
The U.S. Census Bureau Thursday released its latest population projections, saying Americans will be older, more diverse and more populous by 2042.
According to the estimates, the U.S. population will rocket past the 400 million milestone in 2039. Three years later, minorities, which account for 35 percent of today's U.S. population, will become the majority.
By 2050, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other groups will comprise 54 percent of the population. About 60 percent of the new majority will be children.
Nationwide, the Hispanic population is expected to triple by the middle of the century, Alamgir said, and this is the ethnic group which will grow most in New Hampshire as well.
One in every three Americans will be Hispanic by 2050, the Census Bureau is projecting. By comparison, the white population will grow only slightly, and its share of the nation's population will decline. Blacks will account for 15 percent of the nation's population, compared with 14 percent today. Asians and Pacific Islanders will increase from about 5 percent to 9 percent of the population.
According to state population charts, the white population in Rockingham County grew by more than 53 percent between 1980 and 2005, climbing by more than 100,000 people.
The black population increased by more than 100 percent over the same time period, but blacks were still grossly outnumbered by whites  3,038 to 297,902.
Asian and Pacific Islanders also increased their presence in Rockingham County  growing from 772 to 5,168. Hispanics, who are not a race and are therefore already counted in with the white and other groups, are broken out separately for comparison, she said. Over the 25-year period, the Rockingham County Hispanic population increased from 1,226 to 5,377.
http://www.eagletribune.com/punewsnh/local_story_228204657.h tml?keyword=topstoryEdited by: Don Wassall