The majority group in Atlanta, Augusta and Oakland is African-American. Los Angeles is the second largest Mexican, Armenian, Filipino, Korean and Salvadoran city in the world. America is truly a culturally heterogeneous nation. Demographers predict there will be even greater cultural diversity in the future due to increasing immigration and higher ethnic birth rates. America receives more immigrants than do all of the other countries of the world combined.
Immigration already contributes one-third of our population growth.
Births will be higher among ethnics than other Americans. Minorities accounted for 90 percent of the increase in children in the 1980's. While the birth rate of the general population is declining, America will not lose population due to the increase of ethnics. This growth is centered in the cities, but every part of the country is experiencing an increasing number of ethnics. Ethnics will constitute a majority in California by the year 2000, in New Mexico and Texas by the year 2015, and in New York by the year 2020.