Posted on 08/11/2005 12:17:25 PM PDT by Die_Hard Conservative Lady
Texas Becomes a Majority-Minority State By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer Thu Aug 11, 7:50 AM ET
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.
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."
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Associated Press Writer Juan A. Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.
Thank You again, Washington, DC.
Great. As a Caucasian Texan, I now want the rights and prefences due other minorities here.
We're all victims now!
Duh. Wonder how much we paid for this tidbit?
Maybe if "white people" would breed more, this wouldn't be such a problem. As is, their birthrate is far under the rate needed for mere replenishment, much less growth.
But wait! I thought race doesn't matter, and that we're all equal, and, well, skin color is only skin deep! </sarcasm> so much for the liberal stuff.
I love articles like this...the should add a caveat that reads; "Census still shows that Majority of new Majority are still Americans." IMHO...hahahahahaa. MSM press always trying to create a racial divide they purport to wish closed.
I always wonder...other than a Factoid, what is their point with articles such as this?
Not one place in this article did I read the word ILLEGAL in front of the word immigrant.
It is to scare white people, what else? The liberal media love to scare regular white folks. They love to anger them in any way they can. Not sure why, its a post modern, nihilist thing.
Huh? not majority? I'm part of the 49.8 minority now.
"Not one place in this article did I read the word ILLEGAL in front of the word immigrant."
You beat me to it
The plan to reduce the white majority to a minority is right on track. Liberals do not think that it is fair that there is a white majority in this country just like they don't think that it is fair that the US is the only superpower. White liberals suffer from a profound sense of guilt. They will not be happy until they themselves have handed over their own political power and influence and they themselves have been reduced to a white minority. Then and only then will they be happy when they are riding at the back of the bus.
Affirmative action now becomes a tool of the majority opressing the minority...
Eventually, yes, but at this rate (some 1.7 kids per couple), the "white" population is decreasing no matter WHAT the Mexicans do.
The trick is gettin other people to pay for your kids
food, education, clothing, medicine and then declare them
minorities and give them jobs, promotions, legal protections,low cost housing loans, school grants, business loans (the kind they dont have to pay back and can easily default on)...etc etc etc...
Congratulations on your state's new status!
Thsi is aslo due to other factors. One important one being education. Most educated people will not have children they can not afford. On the flip side, the others tend to have "checks" instead of children.
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