So, I heard the comments that Whites will become a minority in the US
If a group is the Plurality, but not a Majority, does that make them a Minority?
Therefore is there is no majority, everyone is a minority?
Not to get political, but I feel many white people feel like there are whites and non-whites, so THEY outnumber us, even though THEY are not a homogenous group.
I dunno, but this trend can easily be stalled by changing the definition of white and including more people in the group, as has been done historically.
Technically I would think that any group that is less than 50% would be a minority. But to avoid confusion I think it would be vastly more responsible to refer to the largest group of sub-fifty-percenters as the plurality if there is no majority.
So you could say that non-Hispanic whites are a minority of Californians. That would be accurate in that non-whites are a majority.
But it would be better to say that non-Hispanic whites are a plurality of Californians, which makes it clear that while they’re not the majority, they are still the largest group of Californians.
I think given no majority the largest group would be called plurality and the rest would be minorities. The plurality would not be a minority or a majority.
I think the next “white” may be “native speaker of American English” (probably still excluding American Blacks, because, you know, umm… actually, i don’t know, but whatever.)
Sheesh, you’d think they’d bury it in something slightly more nuanced and easier to defend like “verbal communication”… which is a bona fide job requirement in some cases.
It wouldn’t surprise me if at least large chunks of latinos/hispanics become white over the next 50 years. Particularly as they intermarry with other groups within the US.