US minority population makes major strides

POSTED: 07:10 AM PDT May 18, 2012    UPDATED: 07:37 AM PDT May 18, 2012 

On May 17, the U.S. Census Bureau released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. Read on to learn more interesting new facts about race within the U.S. population.

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African-Americans were the second largest minority group in the United States, at 43.9 million in 2011 (up 1.6 percent from 2010).

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