US whites now losing majority in under-5 age group

WASHINGTON : For the first time, America’s racial and ethnic minorities make up about half of the under-5 age group, the U.S. government said Thursday. It’s a historic shift that shows how young people are at the forefront of sweeping changes by race and class. The new census estimates, a snapshot of the U.S. population as of July 2012, come a year after the Census Bureau reported that whites had fallen to a minority among babies. Fueled by immigration and high rates of birth, particularly among Hispanics, racial and ethnic minorities are...