'America was born in blood, America suckled on blood, America gorged on blood and grew into a giant, and America will drown in blood,' Chittum warned. Chittum, a New Jersey-based Vietnam War veteran, declared in his book Civil War Two, that the US, like Yugoslavia, will shatter into new, ethnically-based nations. White far-right extremists predict the break-up of the union. Not every one likes the new face of America. At present 72 per cent of the US population is non-hispanic whites the US Census Bureau predicts they will become a minority between 20. Where California goes, the rest of America is predicted to follow. By 2040, hispanics are expected to be the overall majority in the state. At the same time, with limited immigration and low birth rates, the population of non-hispanic whites has fallen by 3 per cent. Fuelled by immigration at its highest rate since the start of the last century, and higher fertility rates, the Asian and Latino populations of California have risen by almost a third since 1990. I am happy for there to be more immigrants - by and large they work harder and have more money to spend.'Īs recently as 1970, eight out of 10 Californians were white. Robert Newby, a white shop-owner who has lived in Los Angeles for 40 years, echoed his optimism: 'This confirms what most of us have thought for years. 'It's my hope we can all see our state's diversity as a cause for celebration and not consternation,' said California's lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamente, a Latino.