The latest release of data from last year’s census in America shows that whites still constitute sixty-four percent of the population, but that their population has grown only a bit more than one percent from 2000 to 2010 (“Minority Report,” April 2, 2011). Over the last decade, America’s population has grown by close to ten percent, though. However, the so-called minorities—that is, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians—accounted for more than ninety percent of that growth. White America’s collapsing birth rate is reminiscent of Europe. Globally, whites are a shrinking minority. But there is a slightly different reading of the same census data, which focuses on income instead. Chances are that America’s whites are richer than the minorities on the average. All around the world, rich people tend to have fewer children than poor people. In global terms, this explains Europe’s collapsing birth rate, as well. Put differently, America’s and Europe’s whites are disappearing because they are rich rather than because of the color of their skin.