America's Diverse Future.

• Position: TRENDS - Brief article

The nation's future growth will come thanks largely to racial minorities. Using new census statistics, the Brookings Institution projects that the nation will become "minority white" in 2045, when whites will make up 49.7 percent of the population, Hispanics 24.6 percent, blacks 13.1 percent, Asians 7.9 percent, and multiracial groups 3.8 percent.

Between 2018 and 2060, combined racial minority populations will grow by 74 percent. Also during that period, the white population will increase modestly through 2024, then experience a long-term decline through 2060, a result of more deaths than births.

Among minority...