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https://www.niussp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Postin_FB.jpg1200630Since the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the colonial period, the United States has been a predominantly white country. The white share was at 90 percent in 1950, but is now down to 61 percent and projections indicate that it will drop below 50 percent sometime between 2040 and 2050. Niussp discusses some of the demographic causes and sociological consequences of this rapid change.