Summary Of The Next America By Paul Taylor

The book, The Next America by Paul Taylor, was a very interesting and well written book. The book focused on how America has changed over the years throughout the different generations. The book seems to focus on mainly two of the generations, the Baby Boomers and the Millennials. Taylor seems to use the Baby Boomers and the Millennials because the Baby Boomers are growing older and aren’t a fan of change and the Millennials are growing up and are apart of the change. He used a lot of statistics and numbers in the book to compare and contrast the different generations throughout the years. Like I said in the introduction, Taylor uses a lot of statistics analyzing the different generations throughout the years. Taylor compared and contrast

As time goes on, Taylor believes that the face of America will also change demographically. As time goes on he believes that the white population will go down about 20 percent in 50 years and the Asian and Hispanic population will rise around 15 percent. Taylor also shows on a chart on page 112, that the percentage of immigrants is changing and the Asian race is growing and the Hispanic origin is going down. As the population is changing, so is the terms that we use for everyone. Taylor says on page 108, “Our twentieth-century metaphor was “melting pot.” Our twenty-first-century metaphor, in a much more racially and ethnically diverse nation, is “mosaic.” Each piece contributes to a whole, but not by losing its distinctiveness.” This is a great representation of what this country is now

Taylor first talks about how the percentage of intermarriage rates are rising. From 1960 to 2013, the percent of marriages that were interracial or interethnic has gone up by 13.5 percent. By different races, people that are white are lower and people that are Asian have a higher percent of marrying a person of a different race or ethnicity. As Taylor talks more about marriages, he gets into talking about how marriage has been on a decline sine 1960. People getting married has gone down 18 percent and people not getting married or getting divorced has gone up 24 percent. Taylor later talks about same-sex marriage and how that has changed. Since 2003, same-sex marriage support has gone up. Depending on the generation is all a big factor in that. Comparing Millennials and Baby Boomers in this is a big difference. Millennials is stilling rising at 73 percent and Baby Boomers is declining at 45 percent. This could be because the world is changing and the Boomers don’t like change and the Millennials are the