Posted on 02/15/2012 8:57:35 PM PST by Pelham
California is in the middle of a far-reaching demographic shift: Hispanics, who already constitute a majority of the states schoolchildren, will be a majority of its workforce and of its population in a few decades. This is an even more momentous development than it seems. Unless Hispanics upward mobility improves, the state risks becoming more polarized economically and more reliant on a large government safety net. And as California goes, so goes the nation, whose own Hispanic population shift is just a generation or two behind.
The scale and speed of the Golden States ethnic transformation are unprecedented. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the most Anglo-Saxon of the nations ten largest cities; today, Latinos make up nearly half of the countys residents and one-third of its voting-age population. A full 55 percent of Los Angeles Countys child population has immigrant parents. Californias schools have the nations largest concentration of English learners, students from homes where a language other than English is regularly spoken. From 2000 to 2010, the states Hispanic population grew 28 percent, to reach 37.6 percent of all residents, almost equal to the shrinking white populations 40 percent. Nearly half of all California births today are Hispanic. The signs of the change are everywherefrom the commercial strips throughout the state catering to Spanish-speaking customers, to the flea markets and illegal vendors in such areas as MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, to the growing reach of the Spanish-language media.
The poor Mexican immigrants who have fueled the transformation84 percent of the states Hispanics have Mexican originsbring an admirable work ethic and a respect for authority too often lacking in Americas native-born population. Many of their children and grandchildren have started thriving businesses and assumed positions of civic and economic leadership. But a sizable portion of Mexican....
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I have always surmised that the national total of "11 Million illegal aliens" so beloved of, and so frequently repeated by government statisticians accurately refers to the number of illegal Mexicans in LA County.
This also in: KB's handsome and accomplished Spanish Son-in-Law called in by school board to be offered a supervisory post. "Esperen un momento," said the resident Mexican Affirmative Action Illegal Anus, "He is not an "Hispanic!" No job for heen!
It seems there is "un problema de coloración." An "Hispanic" is apparently required to be the color of a brown paper shopping bag or better. That is, Americans of European ancestory need not apply.
In my mail from Kevin ff
I support amnesty for illegal aliens
republicans are racist bigots
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