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The racial demographic of the U.S. is changing. While the white race is still currently dominant in terms of population size, there has been a gradual change in the population's racial makeup. Graph 1 displays what changes we can come to expect over the years, with the white race no longer over half of the population in 2044. Right now the largest non-white minorities are Latino and African American, although Graph 2 shows a trend of increasing Asian immigration to the U.S. As of 2014, according to the United States Census Bureau, Asians make up 5.4 percent of the population. This steadily increasing rate of immigration explains the jump to 7.9 percent by 2044, especially considering the decreasing amount of Hispanic immigrants to the U.S., which has dropped from 59 percent in 2000 to 31 percent in 2010. Regardless of this decreasing trend, Latinos are still projected to constitute 25 percent of the population by 2044.
Beyond that, another category is gaining ground and that is the percentage of the population that considers themselves multiracial. At 2.5 percent as of 2014, the multiracial demographic is expected to grow to 3.7 percent, as show in Graph 1. Graph 3 shows the number of interracial weddings in 2008 for each race, and the large percentage of people marrying outside of their race lends credence to the projected multiracial population in the U.S. for 2044.
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