White Births Outnumbered by Minority Births in America: U.S. Census Bureau

For the first time in U.S. history, newborns belonging to minority groups account for more than half of the total births in the U.S.

The U.S. census bureau released today a report showing that in 2011, 50.4 percent of the all the children born in the U.S. were minority births, representing a tipping point for the nation's evolving demography.

The census bureau revealed that from April 2010 to July 2011, the total number of white births accounted for 49.6 percent or 1.98 million births.

"The growth in minority populations is a national phenomenon," said Steve Murdock, a director for the Study of Texas at Rice University according to Statesman.com

In certain states, like Texas for example, seven in 10 children under the age of one are from minority groups.

Based on this data, minority groups look poised to outnumber the white majority in the U.S., where Hispanics account for 16.7 percent of the total U.S. population and will represent a third of the population by 2050.

Non-Hispanics whites will become a minority in the U.S. after 2040 published the Census Bureau in a 2009 report.

In four U.S. states, minority groups are already the majority. The states are Hawaii, California, New Mexico and Texas. The District of Colombia is a non-state that also has a larger minority population.