http://archive.fo/GP56xDefinitions from OMB & ACS guide the Census Bureau in classifying written responses to the race
White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as “White” or report entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian.
The racial classifications used by the Census Bureau adhere to the October 30, 1997, Federal register notice entitled, “Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity” issued by OMB. If an individual did not provide a race response, the race or races of the householder or other household members were imputed using specific rules of precedence of household relationship.
https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2016/PEPASR6HAnnual Estimates of the Resident Population by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin from April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016:
In 2020, there are projected to bemore nonwhite children than non-hispanic white childrenin the U.S.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p25-1143.pdfNonwhites account for more than half of the populations of Hawaii, the District of Columbia, California, New Mexico, Texas and Nevada. And, in the next 10 to 15 years, another half dozen minority majority states will likely be joined by as many as eight other states where whites now make up less than 60% of the population.
Census Bureau projections show that the U.S. population will be majority-minority sometime between 2030 and 2040.
