America’s Demographic Transformation: An Interactive Essay

America is in the midst of two major changes to its population: We are becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray.
 
In 1960, the population of the United States was 85% white; by 2060, it will be only 43% white. Our intricate new racial tapestry is being woven by the more than 40 million immigrants who have arrived since 1965, about half of them Hispanics and nearly three-in-ten Asians.
 
Explore these shifts and examine America’s four generations through animated charts, graphics and videos in a new interactive essay by Paul Taylor that synthesizes findings from the new book, The Next America.  

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