{"id":5360,"date":"2012-05-17T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2012-05-17T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:50:53","slug":"finally-weve-got-enough-white-people-and-can-now-move-on-to-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/finally-weve-got-enough-white-people-and-can-now-move-on-to-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, we&#8217;ve got enough white people and can now move on to other things!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?_r=1&#038;nl=todaysheadlines&#038;emc=edit_th_20120517\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on Thursday, while minorities \u2014 including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of mixed race \u2014 reached 50.4 percent, representing a majority for the first time in the country\u2019s history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time.  I was getting really tired of all these white people everywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Times: After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July, according to Census Bureau data made public on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/17\/finally-weve-got-enough-white-people-and-can-now-move-on-to-other-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally, we&#8217;ve got enough white people and can now move on to other things!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[303],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1os","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}