The author uses the term persons of color to be politically correct when addressing people other than Caucasian within the United States. Before the term persons of color were approved as the politically correct phrase, all the people within the country other than Caucasian were called minorities. Minorities should have been kept as the politically correct term to use since Caucasian are the majority in the country. According to the 2010 United States census, there are 308,745,538 people. There are 196,817,552 Caucasian, 37,685,848 African American, 2,247,098 American Indian or Alaska Native, 14,465,124 Asian, 481,576 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 5,966,481 two or more races, 604,265 some other race and 50,477,594 Hispanic or Latino
