The Lifelong Learner         by Stanley Kubasek | About Me |

US is growing. That's a fact. It is a nation of 300 million! It's made up of many nations blended together. I think that the most amazing thing about the US: the ability to mix many nations and races, and still have a safe environment. I came across a great article on Yahoo: what US is composed of, and what it will look like in the future. A good read -- link below.

I extracted some interesting parts from the article:

• The US population moves past 300 million - expected to happen in the next few days
  
• There will be 400 million Americans in 2043
• 2050, non-Hispanic whites will have dwindled from 69 percent to a bare majority of 50.1 percent
• Hispanic will have doubled to 24 percent
• Asians also will have doubled to 8 percent of the population
• African-Americans will have edged up to 14 percent
• Americans are expected to continue to gravitate west and south
• the West and South have been growing two to three times as fast as the Northeast and Midwest
• A person born in 1967, when the population turned 200 million, could be expected to live 70.5 years.
• Life expectancy for those born today is 77.8 years
• As the US moves toward 400 million people, Americans can be expected to marry later in life, and more of them will live alone.
• Between 1970 and 2005, the median age of first marriage moved from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 26 for women.
• the percentage of single-person households grew from 17 percent to 26 percent

Reference
The next 100 million and the face of America, Yahoo News