Kindergarten students work in a bilingual English-Spanish class at school in Texas. Credit: AP

America’s demographics are changing like never before.  In less than 30 years, whites will no longer be the racial majority in the United States.  As VOA Senior Analyst Victor Morales explains in this first part of a two-part series, this population shift will have important implications for American culture and society.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that by 2045, the United States will have a population of some 389 million people.  And for the first time in the nation’s history, the majority of people living in the U.S. will be non-white. (emphasis added)

“This new diversity boom that we’re seeing right now will be every bit as important for our country in the decades ahead as the baby boom [people born between 1946 and 1964] was in the last half of the […]