With fewer children being born in the U.S., immigrants now account for over two-thirds of the country’s population increase.
Percentage of Foreign-Born Residents in US Hits Highest Level Since 1910
While the U.S. fertility rate remains low and continues to fall, the number of immigrants rises – the combination means, of course, that immigrants now account for most population growth and by 2040, will account for all U.S. population growth.
Amusing …
The number of U.S. residents identifying as Hispanic increased to 19.4 percent in 2023, up from 19.1 percent the previous year. Non-Hispanic whites dropped from 57.7 percent to 57.1 percent. The share of Black residents remained steady at 12.1 percent, while Asians increased slightly to 6 percent.
The Census is treating “Hispanic” as a race but Hispanic and Latino are not a race even though the U.S. government and the media treat those terms as a race. See Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classifications in America by Prof. David E. Bertstein, JD (#AmazonPromotionEarned). Read that book to learn the history of racial classification in the U.S., and the bizarre and broken classification system.
If you do not see the problem – a white person from Spain is Hispanic, a person of indigenous native ancestry from Peru is Hispanic (but declared as native American in the U.S. itself), and a black person from Central America may be both black and Hispanic. Someone living in Brazil, whose national language is Portuguese, is tagged as Latino, as is a blue-eyed blonde of European ancestry who was born in and lives in southern Brazil.
From Brittanica:
It is important to clarify that the categories refer only to a person’s origin and ancestry. A Latino/a or Hispanic person can be any race or color.
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“Hispanic” is generally accepted as a narrower term that includes people only from Spanish-speaking Latin America, including those countries/territories of the Caribbean or from Spain itself. With this understanding, a Brazilian could be Latino and non-Hispanic, a Spaniard could be Hispanic and non-Latino, and a Colombian could use both terms. However, this is also an imperfect categorization, as there are many indigenous peoples from Spanish-speaking countries who do not identify with Spanish culture and do not speak the dominant language.
