WOW....amazing for a state this size, or maybe not. Heck I don't know. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8902484/ Minority population surging in Texas Minorities now make up 50.2 percent of Lone Star state’s population THE BIG PICTURE Updated: 1:08 a.m. ET Aug. 11, 2005 EL PASO, Texas - Texas has become the fourth state to have a non-white majority population, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state. According to the population estimates based on the 2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state. Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states with majority-minority populations — with Hispanics the largest group in every state but Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans. Five other states — Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona — aren’t far behind, with about 40 percent minorities. Public policy analysts said these states and the country as a whole need to bring minority education and professional achievement to the levels of whites. Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities’ education and salary levels in line with Anglos. “Immigration is good for the United States ... it’s important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in,” Frey said. “While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it.” Complications from the cultural shift aren’t likely to be exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey said. ‘Pervasive pattern’ Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent. Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said. “That’s the kind of state that is going to have to deal with quick transition,” Frey said. Though some areas may never see this shift, the country as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a decade ago. The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Hispanic populations grew faster than Anglo populations,” Murdock said. “It’s a very pervasive pattern.”
Why is it when people talk about minorities moving somewhere, it always has a destructive connotation like a flood? Also, what floodgates were opened?
Yea really. What the hell is that supposed to mean? This country was formed by immigrants and on the back of minorities. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and your pissed? Get over yourself.
I just posted this because I thought it was interesting. I should have 1.) known it was going to cause either a political or racial discussion and 2.) posted it in the debate and discussion forum. Ahhhhh well.....
lol! I don't know about floodgates. Most of the growth of the minority population in Texas is from minorities born here. Were Democrats opening the wombs of minority women?
The Astros are getting more and more latino, just like Texas! Just look at Taveras, Wandy Rodriguez, Zeke Astacio and Chavez!
I'll be honest with you, Juan. I've been spending considerable time in formulating proposals for just that sort of venture.
LOL - Another Brother Awwww... but you still have the ROCKE... oops, Chinese people there...! You see??? We're taking over!!!! YAY!!!! Now give us more construction and lawn-mowing jobs... We don't care! It's FUTBOL, not soccer.
