Republicans and other American racists may claim white supremacy only if they adopt the philosophy of Zero Population Growth: according to the new Census data released this week, white folks are the only racial group with the ecological sense to decrease their population over the last decade in the United States:
Overall, the white-alone population fell by 8.6% since 2010, the bureau said on Thursday. Non-Hispanic whites now account for around 58% of America’s population, a drop from 2010 when they made up 63.7% of the population. It was the first time that the non-Hispanic white population has fallen below 60% since the census began [Sam Levine, “US’s White Population Declines for First Time Ever, 2020 Census Finds,” UK Guardian, 2021.08.12].
The only reason America got greater over the last ten years was people of color. But white folks’ age and infertility caused a net decrease in the number of young people:
While previously released 2020 census results indicated a marked slowdown in national population growth, the new release shows that both slow growth and increased diversity are particularly evident among the young. Between 2010 and 2020, the nation’s under-age-18 population registered an absolute decline of more than 1 million. This resulted from a notable loss in the white youth population that was not fully countered by gains in other racial and ethnic groups. As a result, white Americans now comprise less than half of the nation’s under-age-18 population [William H. Frey, “New 2020 Census Results Show Increased Diversity Countering Decade-Long Declines in America’s White and Youth Populations,” Brookings Institution, 2021.08.13].
South Dakota was one of just seven states (plus the District of Columbia) where the white population increased over the past decade. While South Dakota’s white population rose 2.3% (15,944 new people), Black/African American population grew 74.8% (7,635), our American Indian population grew 8.3% (5,931), and our Asian population grew 77.1% (5,866). There are thus more new South Dakotans of those three races than there are new white South Dakotans. Plus, the number of South Dakotans identifying as multiracial grew 170%, a whopping 29,382 new South Dakotans of more colorfully combined heritage than German+Norwegian. (By the way, South Dakota’s growth in multiracial identification was the fifth lowest in the country: nationally, the number of multiracial Americans grew 275.7%.)
So even though South Dakota added white folks from 2010 to 2020 (and I suspect much of that growth was white flight from browner places), most of South Dakota’s population growth came from other racial groups, and the white percentage of South Dakota’s population dropped from 85.9% in 2010 to 80.7% in 2020. We are thus now only the 11th whitest state in the Union:
27 South Dakota counties are whiter than Maine, the only state with a more than 90% white population. Six South Dakota counties have a white population above 95%: Hanson, Kingsbury, Hand, Edmunds, Hutchinson, and Miner. White folks make up a minority of the population in nine South Dakota counties: Oglala Lakota, Todd, Buffalo, Dewey, Ziebach, Corson, Bennett, Mellette, and Jackson.
These numbers represent a demographic curve that will not bend back. Even South Dakota is turning into a less white, more diverse community. The racists flying their Make America Great Again and Take America Back flags may chafe at that change, but they aren’t making enough babies to do anything about it.
TALKING AMERICAN COLOR, PILGRIMS
7,445 days until white people aren’t the majority ethnic group in USA, any longer.
How many of us on DFP will still be cognitive, perceptual, and imaginative?
*Just add twenty to your current age, MAGA’s and grudznike (swoosh)
** For context: White males will still control government and the economy until 2091, at least.
One thing doesn’t look to change, Northern Mississippi will remain embarrassingly red until the cows come home.
Or, until cows become irrelevant.
This economy is driven by large animal confinement operations, what magats would call immigrant detention camps if they thought they could get away with it. It surely wouldn’t cost them any votes.
grudznick will be long dead. Good golly, Mr. mike, I know you are from Iowa where the usual processions and church-lady-lunches happen around 75, but grudznick is so far past any of your age lines that I’m happy every day I awake and wasn’t smote down by the covid bugs or some other of the agonies.
Grudzilla, you make less sense than Johnny Rabbit Hole Refugee. Are you two dating? Cohabitating maybe?
Mr. Dale does have some deep, manly affection for grudznick, Mr. mike.
Not the Iowegian sort, I said Manly. Affection.
Although if he swings out by the grudznick homestead he’s welcome to use a guest room, and if dating means he brings me some fancy beers or buys my breakfast in the morning I am OK with that.
Ironic. Some two decades ago the scuttlebutt among the conservatives of the status quo in the SD university system was that white people would be in the minority with time. This slowly led to amping up various minority awareness efforts, leading to diversity offices and seminars on unconscious bias, etc. which exist today.
And now the status quo thinks we’ve gone too far and that teachers and faculties are indoctrinating students with CRT.
Similar to what occurred with political correctness which, to my memory, was initiated by conservatives decades ago in their “civility” movement (which, like CRT, originated with law studies) while it’s now is decried by them.
Cheap conservatives (versus the best) put something in motion, it takes on a life of its own, and they then distance themselves and vehemently reject the form it has taken a few decades later.
Best news ever.
I have a serious question; is it cultural appropriation for the product of generations of white privilege to use the hilarious term “wypipo?” I heard Amber Ruffin say it about a year ago and I laugh/snort every time I think about it.
Mike mentions CAFOs…I wonder: the Census Bureau probably had no trouble counting the CAFO owners and their families (many of whom are white European immigrants), but were they able to track down all the Mexican, Somali, and other immigrants who work the dairies? Is it possible that the Census undercounted South Dakota’s non-white populations and that our state is even browner than the official count indicates, because the white capital class marginalizes its immigrant workforce?
I have two colors .. white in March and Brown in October.
nyuk nyuk
Who cares.
#humanityisawesome
Cory is right.
It’s a shadow culture that does the hard labor in SD.
If the majority treated Mexicans and Somalis with respect the GDP would rise.
White northern European families like mine are happily welcoming grandchildren and great grandchildren of mixed ethnicity. We love them and support them and the others in their extended family. And it’s a game changer for some folks who had fixed opinions on how we all fit into society. There may be some who haven’t yet experienced the blending but it is coming to everyone when appearances will no longer guide hatred.
Well…WillyNilly is correct…America is becoming more of a melting pot, not less, and its for the better..Western South Dakota has always been more ethically diverse than the Scandinavian East..There was a good deal of intermarraige between Lakota and Anglo cowhands in the early days….nearly every pioneer family in the west river that can trace its roots to the 1880’s is mixed race. There were Mexican linage cowboys from Texas, African Americans descended from free slaves in the southwest, Lebanese and syrian traders who went out on the plains with early settlement. Italians and Slavs replaced the Welch and Cornish in the gold mines and were thought, at the time, to be “Arabs”…Southern Europeans were suspect..even the Finns who came first to the Black Hills and then to the farm and ranch country around the Hills from the Minnesota Iron Range, were thought to be “Orientals” from Siberia…due to proximity, all intermarried with the later arriving homesteaders who didn’t arrive until after 1900. Its inevitable that this intermarraige will continue…Love knows no Race.
In reply to Porter Lansing, I shall say this. On 7/20/21, I noticed a brown, black, and white crew of six reshingling the roof of The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, SD. Frankly, I would not have been there other than the fact I’m poor and I heat my house with discarded wooden pallets; The Mammoth Site gets lots of “stuff” on pallets and kindly lets me scavenge them.
These workers were from Mexico (I asked, OK?) and they nailed 5400 square feet of shingles on days that were 101, 104, and 102 degrees. My late husband and I reshingled four roofs in Denver in June of 1991 when the temps were only in the 80s and 90s. Not fun. I was a tough bitch, but I can’t imagine doing this any more.
Who shingles roofs, climbs rotten utility poles to advise Black Hills Energy which ones to replace, and built my neighbor’s 40ft x 50ft hotrod shop in the middle of winter (-16 F)? Why, Mexicans (I asked, OK) of course.
Bonnie B. Fairbank – How did you ask a Mexican roofer, on top of the roof, if he was an American?
“Hey, amigo. You a Mexican?”
Do you think asking a stranger personal information is treating him with respect?
I sure as hell don’t!
All because someone is a Republican doesn’t make them a racist.
You made an assumption and did not read my post carefully. This is why this site has so few female contributors, which I’ve discussed with CAH. Please eat s*** and die. Actually, no “please” involved. I asked their foreman on the ground if the workers had water and he said he and they were all from Mexico and were doing fine.
Nobody in their right mind cares about a person’s nationality. The only reason I know about the nationality of the pole climbers and hotrod shop builders was because I cared enough about their physical welfare to offer them water or asked them to come in my house and thaw out. I guess I should have prefaced my remarks with these explanations specifically for YOU.
All because someone is a Republican doesn’t make them a racist.
Perhaps not, but, they are more likely to be racist than your run of the mill Democrats. The stakes go up as wingnuts become magats on the national scene and the higher ups in red state governments.
Isn’t it peculiar Noem Nothing doesn’t want people of color to come to South Dakota, unless they are American citizens, all the while promoting businesses that depend on immigrant laborers to survive. Cafos, forestry, meat packing and tourism to name a few.
I see head of magat party claiming her party just loves same sex marriage. Evangelical heads explode on cue.
No, Austin, being a Republican doesn’t make one a racist. But being a racist appears to make people Republicans.
Really all you have to do is look at Tom Cotton, the name is perfect isn’t it? His ancestors had slaves, free labor for a few generations. How do you think he got to be senator? Of course he would oppose Critical Race Theory, he’s the beneficiary.
A new book, Forget the Alamo, gets to the factual history behind the Alamo battle. The work exemplifies why the USA needs critical race theory in its curriculum.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/29/forget-the-alamo-review-texas-slavery-mexico-burrough-tomlinson-stanford
https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Alamo-Rise-Fall-American/dp/1984880098/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QPO5ARETVAQF&dchild=1&keywords=forget+the+alamo&qid=1630243127&sprefix=forget+the%2Caps%2C253&sr=8-1