Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, according to the latest US census.
Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and other mixed races made up 50.4 percent of births counted in the 12 month period ending in July 2011.
It puts non-Hispanic white births in the minority for the first time.
Sociologists believe the economic slowdown has contributed to a greater decline in birth rates among whites.
The US Census Bureau recorded 2.02m babies born to minorities in the year to July 2011, making just over half of all births, compared with 37% in 1990.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18100457
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