ABSTRACT
The official figures can be found in the census. Census officials have always found it harder to add up some groups than others. Two highly contentious race related issues have emerged in connection with the official census: undercounting and racial categories. People without a settled residence like, the homeless or with more than one dwelling cannot be contacted so easily and in the US such classifications tend to fall along racial and ethnic lines. In discussing the implications of such forecasts, it is important to remember that there is of course no certainty as to what the population will amount to in the future. Demographers can make guesses, but these are based on highly tenuous assumptions about fertility, immigration and other factors. A 'majority minority' situation already exists in a number of places in the country and has done so for some time.
