Census: Multiracial US becoming even more diverse: The nation's minority population is steadily rising and now makes up 35 percent of the United States, advancing an unmistakable trend that could make minorities the new American majority by midcentury.
As white baby boomers age past their childbearing years, younger Hispanic parents are having children - and driving U.S. population growth.
'The aging of baby boomers beyond young middle age will have profound impacts on our labor force, housing market, schools and generational divisions on issues such as Social Security and Medicare,' said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. 'The engine of growth for the younger population in most states will be new minorities.'
