THE CAUCASIAN MINORITY

EXCERPTS FROM CBSNEWS.COM: Non-Hispanic whites are now a minority in California, according to new census data. A jump in Hispanic births and Asian immigration propelled whites into minority status for the first time since 1860, when accurate census data started being recorded. As recently as 1970, non-Hispanic whites accounted for nearly 80 percent of the state's population. Hispanics accounted for more than three-quarters of the state's growth during the 1990s and now account for nearly one in three residents. Non-Hispanic whites slipped to 47 percent of the state's population. Asians now comprise about 11 percent of the state's population.

EXCERPTS FROM SFGATE.COM: The most effective civil rights law in American history is on trial for its life. The U.S. Supreme Court will (soon) hear argument that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is obsolete - a victim of its own success in combating racial discrimination. But such discrimination is not ancient history. Congress found as much when it reauthorized Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years in 2006. The legislative record showed that the law remains necessary to thwart persistent efforts to deny minorities effective political participation. 

Note: John is a Caucasian; therefore John needs to be considered a minority; and therefore worthy of protected class status. 

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