{"id":47445,"date":"2012-05-21T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47445"},"modified":"2012-05-21T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:33:08","slug":"jay-smooth-says-dont-freak-out-about-trends-in-births","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/21\/jay-smooth-says-dont-freak-out-about-trends-in-births\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Smooth: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Freak Out&#8221; about Trends in Births"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-20-at-9.39.25-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47449\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/Screen-shot-2012-05-20-at-9.39.25-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/population\/cb12-90.html\" target=\"_blank\">Census Bureau announced<\/a> that as of July 1, 2011, for the first time the majority (50.4%) of babies under age 1 in the U.S. were not non-Hispanic Whites<em>. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalnewyork.com\/2012\/ill-doctrine-dont-freak-out-about-the-white-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal New York<\/a> posted a video by Jay Smooth discussing the reactions to and implications of this news:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42420343\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see the <em>NYT<\/em> article Jay Smooth parodies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/us\/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but note that the graph is mislabeled. The line labeled &#8220;White&#8221; actually only represents the data for non-Hispanic Whites, while the line labeled &#8220;Non-White&#8221; includes births to White Hispanics, so the terminology they used doesn&#8217;t accurately reflect what the graph illustrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Census Bureau announced that as of July 1, 2011, for the first time the majority (50.4%) of babies under age 1 in the U.S. were not non-Hispanic Whites. Animal New York posted a video by Jay Smooth discussing the reactions to and implications of this news: You can see the NYT article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,285,1758,1759,1760,1754,1761,1757],"class_list":["post-47445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-multiracial","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47471,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47445\/revisions\/47471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}