White Minority in America: Nothing to Worry About. Pat Buchanan is Wrong he United States has reached a historic tipping point — with Latino, Asian, mixed race and African American births constituting a majority of births for the first time, theU.S. Census Bureau reported Thursday. Minorities made up about 2 million, or 50.4%, of the births in the 12-month period ending July 2011, enough to create the milestone. The latest figure was up from 49.5% in the 2010 census. The racial and ethnic shift was an expected, but still important, turning point for the nation, whose economic and political elites remain essentially white and primarily male. The new numbers indicate that the upcoming generations will be more diverse and could have an increasingly broader view of issues — such as immigration reform — that are based on race and ethnicity. There will also be cultural changes — as there have been in recent years, with foods, music and ideas from Latino cultures, for example, spreading into the mainstream. The new numbers also raise some interesting questions about, and challenges for, the upcoming generations. They’ll have to deal with non-race-based issues such as the federal budget deficit and the social services needed for an aging population. Thursday’s Census Bureau numbers show a continuing graying of America, as the nation’s median age rose slightly because of growth in the older-than-65 population, especially in the subset of those older than 85. With the overall …