Study: Whites will be minority by 2050

According to a recent study, Whites will be a minority group in the United States by 2050. My opinion is that while diversity has been an idea whose time has come in many places, still other areas are going to be challenged more dramatically by a demographic turn-around on that scale.

Where it involves political races, I think it is plain that the party with the biggest tent is much more likely to be the early winner of this change of the tide. As seen in the ongoing presidential campaign of Sen. Obama, "minority" voting has become much more mainstream as previously marginalized groups are taking a position far more in the center of the political landscape than has previously occurred.

In Monmouth County, an area notoriously un-diverse in many corners, I think this change is going to translate into a modification of views in many communities. Personally, I think the United States was built upon the idea that change is not a bad thing; change represents new opportunities.

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