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To: iowamark

Things change, and are seldom on a linear progression.

For example, when a nation reaches an economic plateau, a standard of living, unique to that nation, suddenly their birth rate drop to just sustainability. Most recently, this phenomenon has happened in Mexico, where their birth rate has plummeted from 4-8 children per family, to just 1-3. Technically, a birthrate averaging 2.3 children per family.

This means the demographic spigot flowing to the US is being turned off. With a stable population, any economic growth in Mexico will have to result in increased wages, as there will no longer be an abundance of cheap labor. Employers will have to compete for workers.

In turn, this means that Mexican workers living in the US will have some motivation to return home, especially when faced with a much more difficult work environment in the US.

So how will this affect the demographics of Texas, now the US’s second most populous State? (After CA but ahead of NY).

Illegal immigrants account for more than one-third of the foreign-born population in Texas and 5.4% of the total state. With Republican ascendancy in the US, it is likely that a lot of those illegals will be leaving. But otherwise Texas is prosperous, which has an attraction to other Americans to move to Texas.

Add to that the vast majority of Mexican-Americans fully integrate into the US, losing whatever affiliation they had with Mexico, and there is little or no bias against miscegenation between Mexicans and whites. Children of such couples can freely move in either society, where language and culture matter more than appearance.

All told, Texas will likely remain Texas.


33 posted on 02/25/2011 5:35:56 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Picante outsells ketchup...

Take that john F. kerry!!!


46 posted on 02/25/2011 5:55:41 PM PST by waterhill (Up the Irons!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

YES IT WILL...


63 posted on 02/25/2011 6:19:01 PM PST by waterhill (Up the Irons!)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

At Dallas Parkland Hospital 1000 anchor babies per month from illegals are being delivered...Every single month at just one Texas hospital..

You don’t have to be a senior demographer to figure out where this is going...

lol


88 posted on 02/25/2011 8:07:30 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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