43 Texas counties are now 'majority minority'

Sounds great. Good news.

 

como?

 

Just wanted to point out a couple of things, not that I disagree with the thrust of the article. Texas has some counties with hardly anyone living in them. I suspect that some of those that "flipped" happened to be a number of those counties.

As for Houston, while the city of Houston has certainly changed in the way described in the article, the reality is that "Greater Houston" has an enormous population of "former 'white' Houstonians" that have moved out into the suburbs. I think that should have been mentioned in the article. The overall trend, however, is that Texas will become a state of minorities, with no real majority population. It's well on its way to being just that.



D&D. Impeach Dildo and His Battery.

 

Because America is a diverse country and now finally this may usher in an era where our gov't may start really reflecting it.

 

pinche gringo

 

that only works if minorities actually bothered to vote. I dont know about the rest of the minorities but Asian-Americans have a horrific turnout on election day.

 

but what do you want expect to be done? govt documents are in multiple languages (everything is in espanol)..

what do you mean, exactly, by "reflecting" diverstiy?

 

affirmative action in politics!

Barak Obama now only needs 180 electoral votes to win!

WASP candidates need 300 electoral votes!

 

seems like the only "fair" thing

 

It's up to the Hispanics to run for office. There's something like only 24 members of the House of Rep.

They are underrepresented but they need to run.

 

as a minority, im concerned...i would like special privileges

 

How so?

 

They make it sound like it's this great thing that happened to Houston.

 

More diversity. Better to expose people to other cultures, see things from a different perspective.

 

That doesn't require an overturn of race to be evident.

 

I'm not passing judgement on the pros and cons. Change is inevitable. I took an excellent upper level course in college on urban history. This stuff has been going on since the 19th century, at least. Eventually, living in the central city regains its allure, and you see central city renaissance occur, as we're seeing in Austin and I think in Houston, as well.

The key is a commitment by local government, with state/federal assistance with large infrastructure investments, to lure people back. Mass transit. Proactive city incentives to promote building condos, apartments, and townhomes in the central city. Encouragement of entertainment and the like for the central city. Austin already has that in spades, and Houston has built a lot of very large projects to entice people downtown. People in the suburbs see renewed activity in the central city. Nightlife, eateries, bars, clubs, sidewalk cafes, with crowds of people enjoying the evenings, and being able to have a few too many and simply walk, take a taxi or a brief mass transit ride to home. They ponder spending 2 or 3 hours each day in a car, and the attractive alternative. End result? A "real city," with a vibrant downtown, home to tens of thousands. But it takes work.



Impeach the Chump and His Puppeteer.

 

Minorities may bother to vote if they felt they could be represented. When you make up a few percent of a district, it makes it hard to have any representation.

But now with whites not dominating every district, it makes it more likely that minority candidates will be able to win in a bunch of new districts. Thus the House will be far more representative of the population.

 

I'm guessing a lot of Hispanics are immigrants and they are not incline to vote.
However, Hispanics have the highest birthrate among all the groups in the USA by a wide margin. So it'll be a few more years yet until the chlildren grow up and really give Hispanic candidates a chance to catch up and win plenty of seats.

 

You'd think that no matter what race of the people in govt, they'd legislate for the betterment of Americans, rather than thier people. If that were so, why would it matter about representation?