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The United States of America is a much more diverse nation than it was a century ago. It is much more diverse than it was 50 years ago. And now it just may be the most diverse nation on the planet with the release of the latest U.S. population statistics.

The U.S. Census Bureau has made it official, whites for the first time ever, make up less than half of newborns in the U.S. Minority newborns have for the first time weighed in at just over half of the population.

The milestone was announced this morning and the Wall Street Journal reported:

Among the roughly four million children born in the U.S. between July 2010 and July 2011, 50.4% belonged to a racial or ethnic group that in previous generations would have classified them as minorities, up from 48.6% in the same period two years earlier, the Census Bureau said Thursday.

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