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convene in order to interact with their policymakers. host: block chainassociation.org the website for the blockchain association. kristin smith their executive director. coming up, reid wilson from the hill will not only talk about what the numbers mean coming out yesterday but the potential impacts on redistricting. reid wilson of the hill joining us next. ♪ >> weekends on c-span to bring you the best in american history and nonfiction books. saturday on american history tv, at 2:00 p.m. eastern, on the presidency, a discussion on the results of c-span's fourth historian survey of presidential leadership with richard norton smith, edna greene medford, and

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"washington journal" continues. host: reid wilson is the national reporter for the hill. here to talk about information that came out with the 2020 senses and the impact it may have on redistricting. guest: thanks for having me. host: in a piece you put out, the five takeaways, particularly about the white population in the u.s., what does the senses show? guest: for the first time in our history, the white population declined. basically since the senses began in 1790, the white share of the population has been decreasing over time as america becomes more diverse and more people have kids in successive generations grow up. what has not happened is that the number of white people in america shrank. there are fewer white people in america today than in 2010. this is the first time the

census has ever shown that. people are having kids later in life. they are having fewer kids. that is what mogg refers are calling the baby bus. the opioid epidemic has taken a toll on rural america and now a broader toll on all of america. the life expectancy in the u.s. has shrank for the last three years even before the pandemic, which is something that has not happened in 100 years since the spanish flu. there is a minor technical change in the census and that they gave more people the opportunity to call themselves multiracial or members of other races. no matter how you slice it, there are fewer white people in the u.s. today than there were a decade ago. host: the second take away on the flipside of that is that every state in the u.s. got more diverse. guest: all of the growth in the

u.s. over the last decade because that white population shrank, all the 27 .2 million people of the u.s. added over the last decade came from minority populations. the hispanic population grew the largest. they are up to 18.6% of the united states. the african-american community group a smaller amount. the asian-american community is the fastest growing community in america. a lot of people will say this is driven by migration. it is not. among hispanics, three quarters of the growth we saw over the last decade came from what we call a natural increase, people having kids. only about a quarter came from immigration. the asian population grew largely from immigration. all of the growth we saw in the last decade came from the minority population. host: as far as the birthrate is concerned, among minority

violations, more births, less in white populations. guest: one of the things that always comes out of the census is the median age. the median age of a white american is in the mid 40's. that tells you the median american is getting close to the end of their childbearing years. the median age of a hispanic american is in the low 30's. the same for the median african-american and asian-american. that tells you there are more women in those minority communities who are in the childbearing age. they are more likely to have kids and expand their communities through natural growth. there are fewer by percentage white people in that category. host: the wall street journal reported that when it comes to population growth overall, seven 44 -- 7.4% violation growth.

most counties lost population. six states and the district of columbia now have majorities of people of color, including nevada and maryland. talk about what is going on at the state level. guest: every state is becoming more diverse. the funny thing is of that data all 50 states became less white over the last decade. the only place that became more white was in the district of columbia. d.c., about 2% of its population -- the share of its publishing that is white is 2% larger. this is the one place in the country that is becoming more white. there are a host of reasons we could talk about for d.c.'s gentrification alone. at the state level, the big thing you just said is that more

than half of the counties in america lost population over the last decade. that is stunning. that has never happened before in american history. in a lot of places, the demographics of those counties show that they are never coming back. they are never going to start growing population again barring some massive change. all 10 of the largest cities in america and almost every county of substantial size in the u.s. has grown over the last decade, something that rarely happens. the 10 largest cities in america are now all over one million people, which is unique to this particular census. what we have seen, and this