The majority of Illinois children will be of a minority or mixed race by 2020, according to projections recently released by demographers at two public policy institutions.
It's a forecast that signals a more racially diverse America in the coming decades, as the country is expected to become minority-majority around 2043. By the early 2030s, 18- to 44-year-olds become minority-majority, and adults 45 and older reach the shift in the late 2050s, according to projections by the Brookings Institution and the Center for American Progress based on U.S. census data.
Children, however, will reach the milestone far sooner, and Illinois is among the first 18 states expected to cross the bar in 2020.
The metrics come during a presidential election year where the political landscape is shaped in part by searing rhetoric about immigrants and ethnic minorities, but experts say the racial recomposition had been long anticipated: White populations are aging nationally, fewer white children are being born or immigrating to the United States, and there are proportionately fewer white women of birthing age than there are among other racial groups and ethnicities.
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