Hispanics Outnumber Blacks! So What?

The Census Bureau reports that Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the United States, numbering 37 million to 35.5 million blacks. Or are they? After all "minority groups" are simply official creations by the Federal government. Given the power of the great American assimilation machine, Hispanics are as likely to remain a separate ethnic group as the Irish, the Italians, the Poles, and so on and so forth. Even the black/white line is being erased via rising rates of intermarriage. Whites may no longer be a majority in 2050, but I'm betting that the real majority will simply be Americans without any hyphens.