" In a few decades , all americans will be minorities, according to Census Bureau projections out today. The forecast:
Non Hispanic whites: They will drop below 50 percent of the population as early as 2042- about 10 years earlier than predicted. By 2050 they will number 203 million in a nation of 439 million.

Hispanics: Their number will triple by 2050 to nearly a third of the population (133 million)

Blacks: Their population will increase from 14 percent now 15 percent(66 million)

Asians: They will number from 5 percent to 9 percent of the population(41 million)

American Indians, Alasks Natives: They will rise from 1.6 percent to 2 percent ( 9 million) of the population.

Message: policy makers must start ada pting now, demographers and race scholars said, especially in education.

Why education? "If we don't invest in educating and training African American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class" said Mark Sawyer of the Center for the study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics in Los Angeles". We will have a very ,very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown"

-Kat Glass, McClatchy Newspapers.

Pioneer Press Aug 14th 2008.