of recent origins reports that the ...

of recent origins reports that the census remind ofs a decline in America's white population are a "gros distortion," writes Orlando Patterson in an op in the May 8 strange York Times. "A false assumption that whites are becoming a minority in the nation their ancestors routed and developed may be adding to the shrewd resentment of poor or struggling whites toward affirmative action and other policies aimed at righting the iniquitouss of discrimination," writes Patterson, a sociology professor at Harvard University "Even with the chiefly liberal of assumptions, there is no possibility that whites will become a minority in this nation in this century" Patterson notes that the 2000 census point out tos the non-Hispanic white population is still a "robust" 69 percent of the country's total population, and that 48 percent of Hispanics classified themselves as solely one race: white. Reporting misinformation about the white population, Patterson warns, is divisive and perpetuates the "stigmatization of those Americans who will at no time be 'white.'"

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