Multiracial America is fastest growing group

Source: MSNBC/AP

WASHINGTON - Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group, wielding an impact on minority growth that challenges traditional notions of race.

The number of multiracial people rose 3.4 percent last year to about 5.2 million, according to the latest census estimates. First given the option in 2000, Americans who check more than one box for race on census surveys have jumped by 33 percent and now make up 5 percent of the minority population — with millions more believed to be uncounted.

Demographers attributed the recent population growth to more social acceptance and slowing immigration. They cited in particular the high public profiles of Tiger Woods and President Barack Obama, a self-described "mutt," who are having an effect on those who might self-identify as multiracial.

Population figures as of July 2008 show that California, Texas, New York and Florida had the most multiracial people, due partly to higher numbers of second- and later-generation immigrants who are more likely to "marry out." Measured by percentages, Hawaii ranked first with nearly 1 in 5 residents who were multiracial, followed by Alaska and Oklahoma, both at roughly 4 percent.

Utah had the highest growth rate of multiracial people in 2008 compared to the previous year, a reflection of loosening social morals in a mostly white state.


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Uh oh, we don't have checkboxes for you. :sarcasm:

I think this is great and a good sign for the country.

Go TAVERNERKIDS!!!!!

my nieces. They are all beautiful and doing very good. All the old stereo types were wrong.

Bullworth: All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.

The government is not allowed to contest whatever we declare. It destroys any semblance of racial metrics

Speeking about half mexican half white kids I know, this is the most prevalent combo followed by the half german half mexican

I am glad to see this trend. (I am of Puerto-Rican, African, Scotch-Irish, German, ancestry)