Graphic: America’s Demographics: Racial and Ethnic Trends

America’s population will increasingly be dominated by non-whites

That’s according to an estimate by the US government as reported by Reuters

By 2060, non-whites will make up 57% of the U.S. population, more than doubling from 116.2 million in 2012 to 241.3 million, according to projections by the U.S. Census Bureau. A surge in Hispanics and Asians is set to dramatically change the face of the United States over the next 50 years, with no one ethnic group the majority. Today’s graphic looks at this projected demographic change in more detail.

Projecting long term trends by looking at current events is a dicey proposition. There could be many changes that may occur in between (2012-2060) to upset any balance captured by such study.

America’s future will ultimately depend on the ever dynamic interactive loop between social policies and the average American’s response on them.

Nonetheless should projected trends become anywhere close to reality, then this might spell doom for the electoral chances of the Republican party or the GOP, whose constituents are said to be mainly from whites.

As author and editor of the American Conservative Patrick J. Buchanan predicts,

If your racial and ethnic voter base is aging, shrinking and dying, your moral code is being rejected, and the tax-consuming class has been allowed to grow to equal or to dwarf the taxpaying class, the Grand Old Party has a problem. But then so, too, does the country.