After a historically low rate of change between 2020 and 2021, the U.S. resident population increased by 0.4%, or 1,256,003, to 333,287,557 in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“Considerably low growth rates in the U.S. between 2020 and 2021 were followed by an uptick: the U.S. resident population increased by 1,256,003, to 333,287,557 in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 data.
Net international migration (the number of people moving in and out of the country) was the primary driver of growth, adding a whopping 1,010,923 people between 2021 and 2022. For comparison's sake, the ‘positive natural change’ – births minus deaths – increased the U.S. population by 245,080. Remarkably, the year-over-year increase in total births was the largest since 2007, as Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau, said in an official statement.
The data indicated that the South was the largest-gaining region last year, increasing by 1.1%, or 1,370,163. The major components responsible for the growth were positive net domestic migration (867,935) and net international migration (414,740), according to the bureau.
The second largest-growing region was the West, which gained 153,601 residents which brought a total resident population of 78,743,364. The region saw gains even despite losing 233,150 residents via net domestic migration.
At the same time, the Northeast and the Midwest lost 218,851 and 48,910 residents, respectively, due to negative net domestic migration.
Texas and Florida were singled out by the Census Bureau as the largest-gaining states between 2021 and 2022. The Lone Star State saw an increase due to: first, net domestic migration (230,961); second, net international migration (118,614); and, third, natural increase (118,159). As a result, this past year Texas crossed the threshold of 30 million people.
For its part, Florida saw an increase of 416,754 residents, with net migration being the largest contributing component of change. Of this number, net international migration added 125,629 people and net domestic migration added 318,855. However, at the same time, the Sunshine State had the highest natural decrease at -40,216”. -Ekaterina Blinova, Sputnik News
Demographers suggest that the caucasian share of the U.S. population has been dropping since 1950 and will continue to go down in the future.
A Pew Research poll concerning future demographic changes in the U.S. found that just a third of American adults said that this change would be either very (17%) or somewhat (18%) good; roughly a quarter said it would be very (15%) or somewhat (8%) bad; and 42% say the change would be neither good nor bad.
However, about half of Americans said that this shift could lead to more conflicts between racial and ethnic groups. About four-in-ten suggested that a majority non-white population might weaken American customs and values.
America’s Founding Fathers specifically mentioned the benefits of “consanguinity”, meaning, a relationship based on having the same remote ancestors.
President Teddy Roosevelt said in 1907 that treating people with “equality” was not a given, but was “predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American”.
He went on to say, “Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all”.
Nowadays, only this brand of unrelenting “America-First” nationalism has any chance of preserving the American nation.
Although the consequences of immigration are realized much faster in a supposed “representative” democracy, there exists an overwhelming proportion of Americans of European descent today who fervently believe that the problem they’re facing is one of ideology rather than demographics and remain reproductively challenged as a collective racial identity.
While mass immigration has proven totally unnecessary and even counterproductive in solving a nation’s economic woes, one wonders if the necessity for debt default will present itself once immigrants of non-Western heritage demonstrate their unwillingness to pay for the massive debts incurred by America’s aging, Caucasian populous.