WASHINGTON -- White people will no longer make up a majority of
Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's
part of a historic shift that is reshaping the nation's schools,
workforce and electorate and is redefining long-held notions of
race.The official projection, released Wednesday by the U.S.
Census Bureau, places the tipping point for the white majority a
year later than previous estimates, which were made before the
impact of the economic downturn was fully known.Texas was at the
forefront of the trend, hitting "minority-majority" status in
2011, when more than half its population, 55.2 percent, was of a
race other than non-Hispanic white, according to demographic
data released in May.The District of Columbia, Hawaii,
California and New Mexico are also minority-majority.America
continues to grow and become more diverse because of higher
birthrates among minorities, particularly Hispanics who entered
the U.S. at the height of the immigration boom in the 1990s and
early 2000s.Since the