The educational gap between whites and non-whites has narrowed dramatically in Texas since school testing began (which was before Mr Bush became governor).
Community colleges have done better at recruiting non-whites than the larger state universities.
There are now more than 50 non-whites in the Household Cavalry, the crack regiments that guard the royal residences.
Three out of every five immigrants head for Toronto or Vancouver, where non-whites now make up a third of the population.
In Texas, for instance, roughly 90% of public-school teachers are white, but 40% of those who have joined through alternative certification are non-whites.
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But non-whites make up a mere 7.9% of the British population and tend to be concentrated in large cities, with 45% living in London.
He plans to phase in a 30% quota of jobs for non-whites by 2003, and to impose it also on firms seeking contracts from the ministry.
And Gallup found that that non-whites were more likely to say they would attend a Black Friday sale than whites, something that should surprise no one.
The major provision of the 2009 settlement was the county's agreement to build or acquire 750 units of affordable housing, mostly in white areas, and market them to non-whites in the region.
Alternative certification attracts more men and more non-whites.
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Paulo Renato Souza, the education minister, is against them, arguing that the recent rapid expansion in school places, and his scheme to give poor non-whites special access to student loans, will help to correct inequalities.
The country's President Thabo Mbeki wants there to be more than two black players in the Springboks' line-up by the time of the 2011 tournament in New Zealand - wingers Bryan Habana and JP Pietersen were the only non-whites to regularly feature in White's side in France.
The strength of this feeling, though, is divided along racial lines: 61% of non-whites told a poll by YouGov for the Commission for Racial Equality that Britishness is about values such as the rule of law and fair play rather than about heritage, while only 27% of whites felt the same way.
In contrast, non-voting whites are 40% less likely than voting whites to call themselves politically conservative.
As recently as 1996, blacks had turnout rates 8 percentage points lower than non-Hispanic whites.
One-hundred percent of the four citizens 18 and older (the "bio children") are non-Hispanic whites.
Non-Hispanic whites currently make up 63 percent of the population of the United States.
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So it might surprise you to know that Asian-Americans also experience a higher rate of poverty than non-Hispanic whites.
Of single race non-Hispanic whites, California had the largest population at 15 million.
Today, many non-Hispanic whites believe they are financing the Hispanic population growth.
The decline among the least educated non-Hispanic whites, who make up a shrinking share of the population, widened an already troubling gap.
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The U.S. prides itself on attracting talent from around the world, and is undergoing demographic shifts that could render non-Hispanic whites a minority by 2050.
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For example, 52% of eligible Hispanics (that is, registered adults who are citizens) voted in the 2008 presidential election, versus 78% of non-Hispanic whites and 79% of blacks.
It hit 50% in 2008, up from 47% in 2004, though that is still a lot less than the 66% recorded by non-Hispanic whites or the 65% by blacks.
Between the presidential elections of 1960 and 2004, their share of the southern white male vote shrank by 17 points, but among non-southern whites it still shrank by 12 points.
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Then, Colorado and Nevada, examples of the gradual-yet-certain shift away from an America that was nearly 90% white as late as 1940 but is today only 63% populated with non-Hispanic whites.
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In our family of two parents and nine children (ages 13 to 29, four by birth and five by adoption), 100% of the citizens age 57 and up are non-Hispanic whites.
PPIC, lies in racial and ethnic differences: California's Latinos, who make up 35% of the population, and blacks (around 7%) are much more likely to be overweight than California's non-Hispanic whites (45%) or Asians (12%).
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