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| The political reaction to the population trend? |
It will be a place that won’t really have a majority group, and I don’t doubt that some people have a problem with that concept.
LISTENING
TO THE rhetoric being spewed by people most enthusiastic about the presidential
aspirations of Republican candidate Donald Trump, one gets the impression that
what they really like about him is the idea that he sees this change in
population as a problem that desperately needs to be addressed.
The
Chicago Tribune reported on a new study by the Brookings Institution and the Center
for American Progress that analyzed the trends in U.S. population. It concludes
that by 2043, the “minority” groups will be the majority in this country.
By
the early 2030s, 18-to-44-year-olds will be mostly non-white. In some places,
the change will come earlier. Including Illinois.
Where
in the Land of Lincoln, people who are white will be less than half by the year
2020. In short, even if Trump were to win the election on Nov. 8, the change
will take place during his presidency.
TO
BE EXACT, white people in Illinois are likely to account for 49.9 percent of
the state population. Which may round off to half, but would be just under
half, and likely would be down to 34.6 percent by 2060.
The
reality of the situation, and the fact that makes the complaints by people
amount to little more than nativist whining, is that there really isn’t
anything that can be done to alter this shift.
Unless
we’re prepared to take on a massive initiative of ethnic cleansing that would
result in the world’s condemnation. Even I don’t really think Trump is capable
of something like that, although the so-called “deplorables” probably wish they
could have such a person as U.S. president.
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| Is Hillary the real vote to "make America great?!?" |
PERSONALLY,
I FOUND the 2060 projection for Illinois to be most interesting. For it is
figured that the Latino population likely will be 35.5 percent, or slightly
higher than the white population. The remainder would be either black (15.4
percent) or Asian (14.6 percent).
Considering
that other studies have said the Chicago population will reach a level of about
one-third white, one-third black and one-third Latino by 2020, it would see
that the change is bound to occur in all parts of the country.
So
much for those people who would just as soon dismiss such ethnic and racial
changes in population makeup as an urban trend, and that somehow the rural
parts of our nation will somehow remain stable and keep our nation as a whole
the way it always was.
That
is what is meant by that “Make America Great Again” spiel being used, which is
why some of us think that the way to really make this nation “great” is to turn
out in vast numbers on Election Day to vote against the whole Trump phenomenon.
WHICH
IS WHAT I honestly think can happen if people actually turn out to vote in
significant numbers. A Trump victory is really only possible if people decide
to get lazy and not bother to cast ballots.
Because
it is likely that the Trump backers will show up at the polling places to vote.
With their motivation being the trend that our population is taking – and has
been for several years.
Actually,
there is one uncertain factor in the future population composition, and that is
just how “Latino” will Latinos be. Will people of ethnic origins tracing back
to Latin American nations wind up mixing in with other groups, and wind up
identifying more with them – particularly with the whites who will technically no
longer be the majority?
It’s
possible, unless people like Trump lay on their nonsense rhetoric so thickly
(just the way that Trump does) that they wind up driving those growing Latino
numbers into a group that winds up as a solid opposition.
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