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.
Maybe I should move to the state to 'collect' on my minority status, and more of us non-Texan freepers, too. Of course, if too many of us move there, it could throw off the percentages.
True, but the more conservative white couples tend to have more children than liberal white couples.. So there is a cultural thing there too.
Does this mean that I know own a "minority-owned" business?
Well, let's give some props to Mexican Americans.
There is also the mitigating effect of inter-racial marriage...lot's o hot, smart, latinas in Texas. I have a lot of friends married to Mexican American girls.
No need for "whitey" to be scared, I think...after all...this country does many things better than all the others on this planet..."Assimilate" when it comes to jumbling up culutres the US is the "Borg". IMHO.
Press should do a better job positively communicating diverstiy within this country...rather than creating a divide and/or victims.
"I didn't see the word INVASION either, and that is just as applicable"
There's a tagline in there somewhere
I seriously doubt that is true in Texas. What is your source?
Seems like Texas is a minority-minority-minority-minority state, no majority.
As we all know, the press will spin it as their agenda dictates the story to have "it"...thus you are correct.
I would add, with "whitey" being the largest minority...hahahahahaha.
The press...juco journalism majors with a keyboard, it's scary what they can do.
"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."
Liberal racism!!
Signed,
a non-white resident of Hawaii who is doing just fine, thank you
My wife's grandmother use to keep up with how many people came across our southern border and always said one day we would be overrun. Ibet she's not only rolling in her grave but also lol.I think it sucks grouping non-white minorities together to create a majority,Sounds like a commy way of counting
My wife's grandmother use to keep up with how many people came across our southern border and always said one day we would be overrun. Ibet she's not only rolling in her grave but also lol.I think it sucks grouping non-white minorities together to create a majority,Sounds like a commy way of counting
The press is playing demogoguery. Yellow journalism.
There are more whites than any other racial group, yet they're considered a minority now? Apparently, it's whites vs. everyone else (the Ryder cup of racial statistics).
Yep...the only thing the press consistantly does with some measure of skill.
I'm not quite understanding this comment.
true, but the ones worth marrying don't generally call themselves Mexican Americans. i would never put another country's name before ours.
Thanks to U.N. programs (some that we help fund), the Mexican birthrate hasd plumetted.
Too True.
Si, por su puesto!
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