Replace the "great melting pot" with multiculturalism and disaster is a probability-----Grand Rapids will be 25 percent Latino by 2040, predicts USC demographer

Grand Rapids will be 25 percent Latino by 2040, predicts USC demographer | MLive.com:
"Future U.S. a 'majority-minority' nation
Based on U.S. Census data, demographers like Pastor predict that by 2043, the U.S. will be a “majority-minority” nation in which the majority of workers will be African Americans, Latinos and Asian Pacific Islanders.
The national level demographic shifting can be seen in West Michigan, where minorities dominated multiple categories of population growth over the past decade while the Caucasian population has either fallen or leveled-out.
The Latino and Pacific Islander populations in particular are surging on a local, statewide and national level, said Pastor.
Populations of both ethnicities nationwide have grown by 43 percent during the period measured by the 2010 Census. 
In Michigan, the Latino population grew by 35 percent in that time, while the Caucasian and African American populations shrunk.
The change is not being driven by immigration, Pastor said, but rather births to immigrants and people of a non-white background already living in the U.S.
“Immigration is slowing down and has been for the last 3, 4 years,” Pastor said, due in part to economic troubles in the U.S., better border enforcement over time, improving economies in Latin American countries and a “sea change” in fertility rates of women in Mexico.
In Grand Rapids, Pastor projected that by 2040, nearly a quarter of the city’s population will be Latino, and “it’s now spilling outside the city into the suburbs.”"