300 MILLION AMERICANS

(2006) U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT/ 10/248-55

There will be a day in October when America will officially turns 300,000 million. It took 139 years to get the first 100 million and 52 years to get the second 100 million and now it has taken 39 years to get the third 100 million.

The fastest growing state is Nevada and the quickest population increase is in the south and west.

All but a handful of states have had an influx of immigrants. The slowest growth has been in New England and the Middle West.

Blacks and Whites are the slowest growing groups and Asians and Hispanics are the fastest. Also growing is a transracial population with 25% of whites having Black heritage and 70% of Blacks having white population.

There are 77 million graying BOOMERS. Most of the boomers will be out of medical support and social security in the next 30 years. The next 100 million are project to come in 2043.All of this is based on trend lines and chaos theory tells us that things don't always come as planned.

At any rate, the USA  is now in the same league as India and China. The future will probably look like Florida. That is in the demographics of the state.