Yet most blacks decide to live in majority minority neighborhoods, while most whites live in overwhelmingly white neighborhoods.
And one of those groups, the majority minority Hispanics, will represent 30% of the U.S. population alone by 2050.
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"2011 is the first time the population of infants under age 1 is majority minority, " said Robert Bernstein, a Census Bureau spokesman.
The district is considered "majority minority" and is reliably Democratic.
William Frey, a demographer at the left-leaning Brookings Institution in Washington, estimates that the U.S. will flip to "majority minority" in 2041, meaning whites of European ancestry will make up less than 50% of the population.
Smith has been in office since 2000 and has been both majority and minority leader of the state Senate.
Are we then destined to live with varieties of majority and minority tyranny along with gross inefficiency in a democracy?
What Madison failed to grasp is that in the very extended republic he was advocating, permanent majority faction gives way to temporary, transient factions of both the majority and minority varieties.
Attitudes toward gay marriage are shifting, a black president was re-elected to a second term, and the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that the country will have a majority-minority population by 2043.
The Residential Mortgage Banking segment directly originates primarily first lien residential mortgage loans on a nationwide basis with a significant presence within the retail banking footprint, and also originates loans through majority and minority owned affiliates.
The interest groups that led the Democrats astray, according to Cost, have come to prominence in the Party since the Great Society: public-sector unions, elements of Wall Street, feminists, environmentalists, and members of Congress who represent districts drawn to be majority-minority.
Well, I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the differences between the way the races got along there was very, very pronounced that you would think that with Milwaukee being a majority-minority city that we would all get along and we would all try to work towards our common goals, but that is what's not the case.
This was a watershed in modern Indian history, exacerbating tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority.
If a majority of Engadget readers knows these are no-brainers, that majority is a minority in the bigger picture.
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He said NATO will continue to protect the Albanian majority and serve minority in Kosovo, but wouldn't weigh in to the debate about independence.
Macedonia is fragile but has made important strides since it avoided all-out war in 2001 between its Macedonian majority and Albanian minority, which makes up about one-quarter of the population.
The sentences came as courts in Myanmar are prosecuting cases stemming from the clashes in the central town of Meikhtila between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims that left at least 42 people dead and thousands homeless, authorities said Tuesday.
But, how does a people hit the reset button when it requires at least 51 percent agreeing to do so and any such systemic reset will always run counter to the short-run interests of some majority agglomeration of minority interests?
White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry says House Speaker Newt Gingrich, House Majority Leader Dick Armey, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Sen.
The supporters they fear most are English, not the majority but a significant minority.
Syria is a nation with a Sunni majority governed by a minority Alawite, an offshoot sect of Shia Islam.
Under these conditions, equity is overpriced relative to a valuation which fully accounts for the conflicts of interest between minority and majority investors.
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They are doing their best to keep the lid on what could become a meltdown of trust between majority populations and Muslim minority communities.
And I believe the Senate Majority Leader -- Minority Leader, rather, only a few days ago, said it would have no positive economic benefit.
This is because much of the internal strife between minority and majority populations within states today is financed and often directed from outside the country.
"If the nominations are blocked by the Republican minority, Majority Leader Reid must be ready to confront that obstructionism to keep this agency functioning, " Cohen said.
I'm hopeful that his experience as minority and majority leader of the Senate can help us forge a new partnership with the Congress, especially on foreign and national security policies.
The classic examples of this traditional minority-majority engagement are the black civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and the labor movements in the West throughout the 20th century.
There the row was between the Muslim Hausa majority and the Christian minority over the appointment of a new Hausa emir for the town, and which community's cultural tradition should predominate.
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