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Hispanic influx reshaping big cities
The Seattle Times ^ | August 22, 2006 | Anushka Asthana

Posted on 08/22/2006 9:39:12 AM PDT by red state girl

Anushka Figueroa recently decided to make a change. She gave up her life in California's Silicon Valley and headed to Phoenix to work in marketing. The 37-year-old, originally from Puerto Rico, said she was searching for a better quality of life.

Her new home, she says, offers all the benefits that California did when her family moved there in the '70s. "California became too expensive," she said, "and Phoenix has advanced dramatically. It is the best decision I have ever made, and I would not go back."

An influx of Hispanics such as Figueroa has reshaped many urban areas' demographics; demographers say non-Hispanic white people soon will be a minority in 35 of the country's 50 largest cities.

An analysis of census data released last week has shown that the white non-Hispanic population in three more of America's 50 largest cities has become a minority. In Phoenix, Tucson and Denver, the non-Hispanic white population has recently fallen below 50 percent, according to William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censusdata; cities; denver; hispanic; phoenix; population; tucson

1 posted on 08/22/2006 9:39:13 AM PDT by red state girl
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To: red state girl
Wheew!

She moved to Arizona instead of Texas.

2 posted on 08/22/2006 9:41:24 AM PDT by lormand (Nuke the Islamic States, or kiss your @55 goodbye)
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To: red state girl

Interestingly, both the writer and the subject bear the name "Anushka."

I never heard of the name until now. Maybe I need to get out more.


3 posted on 08/22/2006 9:44:07 AM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer

Anushka is Russian.


4 posted on 08/22/2006 9:47:46 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: red state girl

Interesting. As a U.S. citizen, I suppose she can move anywhere she wants to move. I don't see the problem here.


5 posted on 08/22/2006 9:50:30 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: red state girl
I remember reading something on another site comparing our Hispanic invasion to the Muslim invasion in Europe. This, of course, is crazy. We get a lot of dangerous guys from Latin America, but they're traditional criminals, and don't form plots to take down planes. Shut down illegal immigration cold, and a good portion of that problem is solved.

The term Hispanic is pretty loose, too. My wife is a white Panamanian, and she isn't much like the Mexican illegals we have here. About the only similarity is that she speaks Spanish, but then again so do I. She can't vote yet (citizenship takes years), but she's never going to vote Democratic. :)

6 posted on 08/22/2006 9:58:44 AM PDT by adam_smith_76
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I have a friend that married an engineer from Venezuala and has a whole bunch of "hispanic" children.

They are just like you and I except one of them is graduating from college here at 19 with two degrees. The government considers them hispanic but I can tell you they don't think of themselves that way.

Of course they have pride in their heritage but they are 100% pure conservative Americans. They are not trying to recreate Latin America up here. Their father left there for a reason, and he reminds the kids of that every day.


7 posted on 08/22/2006 10:19:10 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: adam_smith_76

Unfortunately, many of the illegals probably will become citizens before your wife.


8 posted on 08/22/2006 10:45:56 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: red state girl
I just want to know. When I become a member of a minority group will I be entitled to all of the benefits they do now? Heck no! The Political leaders will decide that enough is enough.They'll probably say something like. That would be discriminating against others.
9 posted on 08/22/2006 11:16:03 AM PDT by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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We get a lot of dangerous guys from Latin America, but they're traditional criminals, and don't form plots to take down planes.

Most people aren't so much comparing it to the muslim invasion of europe as saying that muslim terrorist can come across the border. Also, do you think MS-13 is just another run of the mill criminal gang? If so, I suggest you read a little more about them.

10 posted on 08/22/2006 11:39:54 AM PDT by calex59 (Hillary Clinton is dumber than a one eyed monkey with a brain tumor(credit to Harley69))
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To: newgeezer

Anushka is the Russian, Belorussian, and Ukranian diminutive for Anna. The Central Slavic equivalent is Hanka or Anka.


12 posted on 08/22/2006 11:46:41 AM PDT by rmlew (I'm a Goldwater Republican... Don Goldwater 2006!)
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To: adam_smith_76

"We get a lot of dangerous guys from Latin America, but they're traditional criminals..."

Yup, nuthin to worry about......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687923/posts


13 posted on 08/22/2006 11:57:43 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: red state girl

non-hispanic white people vs hispanic white people?

seems like someone is playing skin color games.

The real story should be why is California loosing people who actually work for a living?


14 posted on 08/22/2006 12:06:43 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: I still care; adam_smith_76
Ditto.

I married a Cuban woman. Best person I ever met. Period. Her father did two years in a prison camp to get his family out of Cuba in the 60's. He worked three jobs and did whatever it took to put his kids through school. My brother-in-law graduated from Penn and Wharton. I'd put her family up against any other family I ever met for being true conservatives, patriots, hard working, moral, and just plain decent folk.

The term "hispanic" is quite misleading.

15 posted on 08/22/2006 12:22:21 PM PDT by MattinNJ (The paleocon's paleocon.)
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To: red state girl

It isn't just big cities. Small towns are being changed by this plague too. Already many towns in NC have seen the quality of life drop tremendously. Schools that once tested well are now listed as failing under NCLB because a tremendous percentage of the studets don't speak English. You see parking lots with dozens of loitering day laborours. DUI is through the roof and crime is up. It isn't just the cities that have been hurt by this. I fear that unless the borders are closed very soon the America we know will cease to exist. The birth rate you see in these towns is tremendous. I know a lovely woman who teaches kindergarten. Her class is now about 50% hispanic. Ten years ago she didn't have a single one. Grocery stores near me are filled with young hispanic women with two or three babies. Add that growth rate to the millions poring over the border every year and our culture is looking at a grave crisis.


17 posted on 08/22/2006 4:06:46 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: adam_smith_76

"I remember reading something on another site comparing our Hispanic invasion to the Muslim invasion in Europe. This, of course, is crazy. We get a lot of dangerous guys from Latin America, but they're traditional criminals, and don't form plots to take down planes. Shut down illegal immigration cold, and a good portion of that problem is solved.

"

I would agree with this. Our invasion brings some of the same problems but at least we don't have a cadre of Mexicans looking to blow us up.


18 posted on 08/22/2006 4:07:34 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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