Some stories described these as "dying counties." But Mr. Perry says all it technically means is that they have more deaths than births.
The United States has more than three thousand counties. In all, about seven hundred sixty of them are experiencing natural decrease.
Mr. Perry says this does not necessarily mean their population is dropping. There are three ways that populations can grow.
MARC PERRY: "You can grow because people move there from international areas. You can grow if people move there from other parts of the United States. And you can grow if you have more births than deaths. So we call those the three components of change.”
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STEVE EMBER: One change that has taken place in the United States in recent times is that Hispanics are now the largest ethnic minority group. Some of their growth is the result of immigration from Mexico and other Latin American countries. But it also represents the result of higher birth rates among Hispanics in the United States compared to the general population.
The state of Texas, on the border with Mexico, had an increase of more than four million people over the last ten years. Hispanics represented sixty-five percent of that growth.
The Census Bureau expects racial and ethnic minorities to form the majority of the American population within less than forty years. But even before that, population experts predict that half of all the children in the United States will be members of minority groups.
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