Posted on 08/26/2004 6:45:42 PM PDT by Conservative Firster
HOUSTON White non-Hispanics are no longer the majority in Texas -- for the first time since the 1800's.
Today's Census Bureau survey says whites stopped being the majority in Texas as of last year.
Also, the numbers show that Texas joined only Illinois and North Carolina in having a poverty rate that measurably increased -- while income decreased -- in 2002-03.
Texas state demographer Steve Murdock says the two trends are related as economic woes have slowed white migration from other states.
Luis Figueroa with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund says the future of Latinos is the future of Texas, as the population numbers show.
Also:
-- Most of the Texas population expansion since 2000 has come from births and international immigration -- both sources of predominantly Hispanic growth.
-- The black population remained basically flat, at around ten-point-eight percent.
-- Asian-Americans now account for about three percent of the Texas population.
Out of curiosity, have you noticed that compared to other states, you hear very little bitching about the border from Texans? It's true, even on FR, Texas is a state with a large hispanic population, a large FR presence, and you'll find very little bitching about hispanics by Texans.
Well I look at this way. Right now I'm voting for Bush. I could get very annoyed and vote for Peroutka. I live in New York where the donkeys and rinos roam BUT I can imagine this place being completely uninhabitable if Kerry becomes president.
Yes I notice. Texans know their own people living around them and what they are dealing with. That's why I try not to be a armchair analyst of Texas politics.
Yep. With the LA school system being 84% Hispanic, how long do you think it will be before this is also true of California. Nevada has the fastest growing Latino population in the nation. We're next. The West is lost, friends. But we whites are still paying the bills to support them. You think we don't have tyranny? Slavery? What do you call it when they steal your money and give it to the cheap labor crowd?
Not for the vast middle of the country from Pennsylvania down to Lousiana and up again to Oregon.
Translation: The Democrat plan to secure the Texas electoral vote in perpetuity is right on track. The treasonous drunken fat bastard Kennedy's plan to destroy the country -- controlled immigration -- is doing the job. Same for California.
What is the Bush Administration doing about it? Why they're trying to throw the doors wide open and allow even more in. Democrat plan?
Yes, but would most whites recognize them as whites? Maybe for some from Puerto Rico and Venezuala and Columbia and the like. Most coming across from Mexico are Indians.
Like I sdaid in other posts, I feel helpless between the multi cultural Democrats and cheap labor, socially darwinistic WSJ wing of the GOP. I know while most people are focused on the Swift Boat vets, they ignore the real demographic disaster that is taking place in the US. It makes me physically ill, questioning if I should even vote.
BTTT VOTE! Don't let them silence you. Vote for the only candidate who will put a stop to it!
After 150 years, Mexico has recaptured part of her lost territory. And promptly turns the recaptured territory into a Third World country.
Make that a Third World country paid for by stupid white taxpayers.
If you want to live in a white area of the country not being over-run by illegals from Mexico, pick somewhere west of the Appalachian foothills, east of the Sierra Nevada, and north of the Arkansas and Colorado Rivers. Elsewhere, get used to being a minority, and possibly having to learn Spanish.
Well said, very well said.
living in West Texas and seeing for the last 30+ years the changing demographics, we have discussed this at length numerous times. The white families have 1, maybe 2 children, while the hispanics have 3++++. Only figures that the population will grow. That and the lax border controls.
The unionized north central is dying out for the Democrats. Every year sees more and more FDR/Truman Democrats die-off up there, and fewer and fewer rural Democrat counties. And as long as whites in the south continue their 70% Republican block-voting ways, large minority populations there will continue to be irrelevant.
Ultimately, the division is going to solidfy as shown below, provided that (1) the majority of Mexicans continue to not become citizens, (2) White block voting in the South remains intact.
And even if we lose Texas in this scenario, we still have a 280 to 258 majority.
Comming to a State near you, soon.
I remember reading something like that too.
If the GOP loses Texas, the Electoral College math makes winning the Presidency highly unlikely.
A big mucho gracias to our outstanding government!!
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