"I've never been treated badly in life because of my skin color or my gender," Kaine told a group of black Baptists in New Orleans. "I think the burden is on those of us who are in the majority — Caucasians. We have to put ourselves in a place where we are the minority."

The "burden" that Kaine mentions obviously means taking on "white guilt," despite the fact that – even at the height of slavery – only 1.4% of whites in America owned slaves. White people were also victims of far more brutal and longer lasting oppression under the Barbary slave trade.

Kaine's desire to see whites become a minority in America is set to be realized in around 30 years because white people are the only group with a higher death rate than birth rate.

Hispanics are growing in number at a pace of around 2.1 percent a year, with blacks growing at 1.3 percent, while whites are only growing at 0.5 percent.