by Jared Taylor

About the author: Jared Taylor is a journalist and author of Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America.

Editor’s note: The following viewpoint is excerpted from a speech delivered at a 1996 conference sponsored by American Renaissance, a conservative monthly journal.

Iwould like to talk to you today about the demographic future of the United States, specifically about what the shifting racial makeup means for the future of our country.

In March 1996, the Census Bureau released its periodic projection of the ethnic makeup of the United States during the next few decades. It reported that if current immigration and birth rates hold steady, by the year 2050 the percentage of Hispanics will have increased from 10 to 25 percent, Asians from three to eight percent, and blacks from 12 to...