Women, who a few years ago became a majority of the college population, are entering higher education at even faster rates.
After 1886 the prospect of gold lured large numbers of newcomers to Johannesburg, where they became a majority of the citizenry and were led by an aristocracy of wealthy mine owners.
Some time in the past year or two, for the first time in history, they became a majority of the developing world's population: their share of the total rose from one-third in 1990 to 49% in 2005.
With the U.S. poised to become a majority of-color nation in the coming years, the backward racists are outnumbered and will be outvoted through a process of attrition.
Such couples, with children, have become a majority of all married couples, not just of those with children.
By the mid-1960s, Indo-Fijians, mofthem them by then born in Fiji, had become a majority of the population.
The minority groups that President Obama carried with 80percentt of the vote in 2012 are on track to become a majority of the nation's population by 2050.
Rove once hoped to build a new big-tent party that could thrive as ethnic and racial minorities become a majority of the electorate.
If immigration continues, black, Hispanic and Asian children will become a majority of young children sometime between 2019 and 2023, according to the latest projections.
Since 2000, members of racial and ethnic minorities have become a majority of youngsters under 15 in two of the nation's fastest-growing states, Florida and Nevada, with Georgia, Maryland and New York poised to follow, according to census data released on Wednesday.
In this period, poverty declined significantly, and so did income inequality; the so-called "Class C" – people living in families making from R$1,000 (£252) to R$4,000 (£1,008) a month – swelled to become a majority of the population.
