Sonia Sotomayor

Census Projections: U.S. Will Be Half Minority By 2042: "Some amazing projections were released by the U.S. Census Bureau this morning: by the year 2042, more than half of America's population will be made up of minority groups. ... Minority children, meanwhile, will hit 50 percent of the youth population by 2023."

The Hispanics are spearheading this population dynamic, they will triple between 2008 to 2050, and it is therefore highly appropriate for President Obama to nominate Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court Justice. It is unifying the US more at the same time as it is causing a divide, at least according to some columns.

From our standpoint here in Sweden it is interesting to see how quickly race has become an issue and how it seems to play out in the US which have larger minorities than we have. Apparently there is quite an affinity among people of the same race. As Maureen Dowd points out today in The New York Times, post-racial did not quite work for Obama. However, people have racial affinities but they can coexist as well.