O NOES!

Minority babies set to become majority in 2010; year could be tipping point when non-white newborns outnumber white: "Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the 'tipping point' when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites."

NOT THE TIPPING POINT!!! Save us, Maude!

Cue yet another round of conservatives wailing about "racial suicide" and the onslaught of the radical brown hordes. You know who I mean—the white assholes who are worried that a brown majority might treat a white minority as shitty as a white minority has treated people of color.

Anyway... Of course you know who's to blame for this, right? WHITE WOMEN! For not having enough BABIES!

[Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire] explained there are now more Hispanic women of prime childbearing age who tend to have more children than women of other races.

More white women are waiting until they are older to have children, but it is not yet known whether that will have a noticeable effect on the current trend of increasing minority newborns.

So you'd better get CRACKING on the babymaking, white ladies! JUST IN CASE!

Right now, roughly 1 in 10 of the nation's 3,142 counties already have minority populations greater than 50 percent.

But 1 in 4 communities have more minority children than white children or are nearing that point, according to the study, which Johnson co-published.

That is because Hispanic women on average have three children, while other women on average have two.

...The numbers are 2.99 children for Hispanics, 1.87 for whites, 2.13 for blacks and 2.04 for Asians in the U.S.

And the number of white women of prime childbearing age is on the decline, dropping 19 percent from 1990.

This is all feminism's fault, I tell you.

I love the inclusion of this tidbit at the end of the article: "In Lake County, Ind., a suburb of Chicago, the minority population grew from 43 percent in 1990 to 53 percent in 2008 as the number of white children declined, the number of blacks stayed stable and the number of Hispanics increased."

*waves from the border of Lake County, Indiana*

Okay, so, first of all, Lake County is not a suburb—because it's not a town. It's a county, as its name suggests. And it includes Gary, which is the "blackest" 100,000+ resident city in America with a per capita average income of under $15,000 a year, from which whites have been flighting since the 1960s when Gary got itself a popular black mayor, a migration that reached a crescendo when the steel industry of Northwest Indiana collapsed in the '80s.

White people have been moving out of this area, and people of color—especially Latin@s—moving into this area, for my entire life. The population shift has fuck-all to do with how many babies white ladies are having, and everything to do with racism and economic depression.

All of which I share just to illustrate the sort of bullshit that gets inserted into news stories as "facts" and "evidence" that are demonstrably neither, in order to further the narratives of the kyriarchy.

[H/T to Shaker Kristin.]