If you ever got the feeling there are fewer white people around, and that it's not only just a matter of more minorities, these statistics back that up:

The U.S. Census Bureau's release of race and age statistics for 2017 points to two noteworthy milestones about the nation's increasingly aging white and growing diverse population. First, for the first time since the Census Bureau has released these annual statistics, they show an absolute decline in the nation's white non-Hispanic population—accelerating a phenomenon that was not projected to occur until the next decade.

Second, the new numbers show that for the first time there are more children who are minorities than who are white, at every age from zero to nine.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-a...-census-shows/


What is causing the white population to have fewer children than the replacement rate?
Is it the lack of formation of families? Many parts of the country where young Millennials can't afford a home? Is there something about white women in this new culture that is making them decide not to want children?

Even including immigrants from Russia coming into the U.S., the white population is still showing a net decrease. I've met immigrants (white) from Russia, Czechoslovakia, England, even bumped into three that had come from South Africa. So obviously there is a fairly sizeable number of white immigrants still coming.
What's happening to the native white population?

The article reveals that, between 2015 to 2016, the number of whites in the country underwent a decrease of 9,000. That may not be a lot, but it does represent a significant turnaround from continuous slow and gradual growth. Then between 2016 to 2017 it decreased by another 31,000.

All this time, the total population of the U.S. has been on the increase.

Actually, that doesn't tell all of the story. The population in many regions of the country has been decreasing, while the population in the more densely population areas have been increasing over the last 10 years.
With more of the population becoming more concentrated, no doubt that is exacerbating housing affordability issues. (Maybe not a good thing for the economy, but that's another topic)

The white population in the U.S. is aging. A continually growing percentage of them are older.

So part of the reason the white population is on the decrease is they're simply dying off.
It's reached that stage now where the percentage of the total white population in their geriatric years has become so high now that natural deaths are beginning to take their toll on the combined population of all ages.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...ls-or-younger/

In fact, if we didn't count all the women that are well past their childbearing years, whites would already make up less than 60% of the US population. Less than 40% in some states like California.