They just don’t make white people like they used to.

According the most recent census and as reported by the Washington Post,”For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation’s babies are members of minority groups.”

Population estimates show that 50.4 percent of children younger than 1 last year were Hispanic, black, Asian American or in other minority groups. That’s almost a full percentage point higher than the 49.5 percent of minority babies counted when the decennial census was taken in April 2010. Census Bureau demographers said the tipping point came three months later, in July.

While the racists probably think this means that America is being taken over by brown people, the results of the census do not clearly indicate that the US is becoming any less of a white nation than it has been since the 1950’s–but who does and who does not fall under the rubric of ‘white’ is becoming harder to define.

Most of increase in non-white births that the census is reporting are of Hispanic children. The definition used by the census dictates that Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race; thus, a person can be a black Hispanic, a white Hispanic, or choose to not check any box indicating race. Half of Hispanics consider themselves white, 8 to 10 percent consider themselves black, and the rest identify as multi-racial or as having no race at all.

“The definition of white has always been expansive,” said Robert Lang, sociology professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.”I could see the census in 2030 or 2040 dropping the differentiation between Hispanics and whites.” Roderick Harrison, a Howard University sociologist and former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, agrees with Lang. Harrison states “that growing numbers of second- and third-generation Hispanics may lose some of their cultural identity as they become more assimilated in the U.S.”

People who identify as mixed black-white ancestry are also becoming more commonplace:

The latest census figures also show the number of Americans who identified themselves as partly black and partly white more than doubled to 1.8 million. For the first time, the black-white combination is the most prevalent group among multiracial Americans, making up 1 in 5 members of that subgroup. They exceed the number of multi-racials who identified as being white and “some other race,” composed of mostly Hispanics, as well as white-Asians and white-American Indians.

The future of America looks like it will be filled with people who look like Barack Obama and Sofia Vergara.