"More white people died in the United States last year than were born..."

"... a surprising slump coming more than a decade before the Census Bureau says that the ranks of white Americans will likely drop with every passing year."

"Slump" — used there by The Washington Post — sounds kind of mean. The first definition in the (unlinkable) OED is: "To fall or sink in or into a bog, swamp, muddy place, etc.; to fall in water with a dull splashing sound."

a1677   I. Barrow Serm. in Wks. (1686) III. 191   Young men..walk upon a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump....
1776   T. Twining in Country Clergyman of the 18th C. (1882) 31,   I remember slumping on a sudden into the slough of despond, and closing my letter in the dumps....
1835   New Monthly Mag. 43 159   We dreaded to meet even a single sleigh, lest in turning out, the horses should ‘slump’ beyond their depth, in the untrodden drifts.

Also, " To slide off heavily; to plump down; to fall or collapse clumsily or heavily..."

1884   J. Burroughs Pepacton 217   Its body slumps off, and rolls and spills down the hill.
1889   ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee v. 63   Clarence had slumped to his knees before I had half finished....

WaPo is talking about The Reproductive Choice of Women. How sexist to label this a sinking into a bog or a clumsy collapse. It's quite the opposite. I've been down there on the floor... No one's ever gonna keep me down again.... It is knowing, intelligent, and individualistic.