Abstract
African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans and American Indians and also homosexuals form the most well-known minority groups in the US. Minorities represent roughly 25% of the American population, and they are growing at much faster rate than Americans of Anglo-Saxon descent. Within a span of hundred years, the population of the US is expected to be evenly divided between whites and ethnic minorities. New York City already displays this pattern (well over 60% of its population belongs to one minority group or another) and so does California, with 40% of its inhabitants falling into a minority category, mainly because of the great influx of Hispanics and Asian Americans located there.
