255 the trans-Caucasus region, where there are significant Muslim populations
Atryom Liss, "Neo-Nazi Skinheads Jailed in Russia for Racist Killings," BBC, February 25, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8537861.stm; Mansur Mirovalev, "Russia: Far-Right Nationalists and Neo-Nazis March in Moscow," Associated Press, November 4, 2011.
256 three quarters of them have less than one million people
Report of the Secretary-General, "International Migration and Development."
257 make up 10 percent of the population or more
United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs, "Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2008 Revision."
258 2,100-mile-long, 2.5-meter-high iron fence
Kurt M. Campbell et al., "The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change," Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 2007, http://www.climateactionproject.com/docs/071105_ageofconsequences.pdf.
259 a surge of internal migration from low-lying coastal areas and offshore islands
Ibid.
260 in the Bay of Bengal, where four million people currently live
Ibid.
261 population of Bangladesh
Ibid.
262 even though it has only 5 percent of the world's population
Global Migration Group, "International Migration and Human Rights," October 2008, http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendocPDFViewer.html?docid=49e479cf0&query=migration.
263 outnumbered Caucasian babies for the first time
Conor Dougherty and Miriam Jordan, "Minority Births Are New Majority," Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2012.
264 experts as a major factor causing the surge of hate groups
Colleen Curry, "Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics," ABC News, May 18, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/US/militias-hate-groups-grow-response-minority-population-boom/story?id=16370136#.T7Zy1O2I3dl.
265 "nation's population growth in the decade that ended in 2010"
Sabrina Tavernise, "Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.," New York Times, May 17, 2012.
266 as the number of Hispanic and Asian children increased by 5.5 million
William H. Frey, "America's Diverse Future: Initial Glimpses at the U.S. Child Population from the 2010 Census," Brookings Institution, April 6, 2011, http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/0406_census_diversity_frey.aspx.
267 Hispanics at 26 percent and African Americans at 22 percent
William H. Frey, "Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs: Racial and Ethnic Change in Metro America in the 2000s," Brookings Institution, May 4, 2011, http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/0504_census_ethnicity_frey.aspx.
268 represent the largest minority group in the United States
Dennis Cauchon and Paul Overberg, "Census Data Shows Minorities Now a Majority of U.S. Births," USA Today, May 17, 2012.
269 bombing of the federal office building in Oklahoma City
Brian Levin, "U.S. Hate and Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says," Huffington Post, March 8, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-levin-jd/hate-groups-splc_b_1331318.html.
270 renewed upsurge in 200912
Ibid.
271 "precisely coinciding with Obama's first three years as president"