It’s official.

The latest census finds that a majority of all Americans under two years old are not white. (It’s under five in some of our largest states — including California, New York, and Texas, with Illinois and Virginia on the way.) The Right wing has started whining about abolishing birth-right citizenship — just because they’re the majority doesn’t mean we have to let them vote — but there is no turning this aside. White Christian-dominated America is going down.

So what will it all mean? It’s always dangerous to generalize but … contrary to what some people would like to tell you, nonwhite Americans, by and large, are as patriotic as anyone else. They find a great deal to value in the American political tradition.

But it’s not necessarily the same things. And they don’t necessarily put the same “spin” on them. In a nonwhite-majority America, maybe the fact that there was slavery in the early Republic will not be merely an embarrassing — but ultimately unimportant — detail. Same for the dispossession of the Native Americans. Most important, white people will no longer have the power to decide what these things really mean for the American political community. They will no longer be able to insist that their system (free-market capitalism) be seen as a just system which has enriched those who deserve to come out on top; American history will no longer be the story of how the deserving won, but how the oppressors abused everyone else — and how everyone else fought back.

This will likely take a while, but victory is in sight.