Posted on 06/14/2004 9:01:34 PM PDT by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON, June 14 (AP) - Explosive growth among Hispanic- and Asian-Americans propelled a surge in the United States population from 2000 to 2003 to nearly 300 million people, the Census Bureau reported on Monday.
The number of people of Hispanic descent, the nation's largest minority group, rose to 39.9 million, a 13 percent increase from April 2000 to July 2003, the agency said. That far outpaced the 3 percent increase in the American population during the same time, to 290.8 million.
Asian-Americans were the next fastest growing among the large minority groups, up 12.6 percent, to 11.9 million, while the black population rose nearly 4 percent, to 37 million.
About 4.3 million people listed themselves as of more than one race, up 10.5 percent from 2000.
The population of Hispanic- and Asian-Americans rose in nearly every state over the 1990's, in large part as a result of immigration. People who identified themselves only as "white" remained the single largest group, at 197 million, up just 1 percent from 2000 to 2003.
Thank you. You are quite gracious.
I think our nation needs to demand English in order to maintain cohesiveness.
I still don't understand what your trying to say here. Are you saying that because bush got into Yale with less then a 4.0 that reverse discrimination is OK? Also I've met many people who are biased against Asians for a variety of stupid reasons. I think it's you who have not gotten out much.
http://mathlab.sunysb.edu/~gnewman/stereotypex.html
And I went to this school... I knew a black kid who had a 4.0 and people were always accusing him of being an AA admission. This came from white kids who could not even begin to qualify for computer sciene at Stony Brook.
LOL. Pretty goofy isn't it?
Where did I say that discrimination was ok?
And no the reason why I gave Bush as an example was to show people with not so perfect GPA's DO get into ivy league schools.
You can think the liberals for that.
That's a whole other thread! *lol*
I didn't actually say you support reverse-discrimination but some of the things you have been saying seem to hint at sympathy for it.
Nope. I don't think affirmative action/quotas whatever liberals is a good remedy for anything. Revenge is a BAD idea and to me, that is what AA is. Some special interests may disagree with me but that's my opinion. It causes more problems than any good it was supposed do.
Aye, you're right. We could argue that it's not all "asians" just Hmong while the Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians etc. are hard working but that's just using tags. Let's jsut call 'em Americans.
this is our family...
we are all mixed up, Hispanic and Asians of various degrees. The Filippinos have Spanish blood, the South Americans have white blood, and the grandchildren are so mixed up it's hard to tell.
Heck, my son in law and myself are the only pure "whites" in the family, the rest are an amalgamation. We just upset the census bureau's racist comments.
But we are at home in Oklahoma, where many people have Indian blood, and you find blond "whites" and dark "blacks" at the local Indian clinic. Heck, if you know your trivia, there was a Cherokee general in the Confederacy, so it's nothing new.
As small as Asian voters are, they are the bellwhether of US politics.
most Asians are Republican.
And "asian" includes Indian/Pakistanis, who are Aryan ancestry, and Melanesians who are black in colour, and Samoans who are similar to Hawaiians. And Chinese culture is nothing like Japanese culture, nor like Korean, and the Han culture of northern China is not like Thailand/Philippines.
It includes Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and non religious people.
At least "hispanic" has some basis: It includes whites, Indians, Metzisos and Blacks, but at least most are Christian and have a similar culture-- a culture closer to "white" American culture than many think.
What nonsense.
In 1996, a majority (I think about 56%) voted Republican. In 2000, they voted predominately Democratic. What a difference four years make.
As did I Fitz. I now check Native American as that is what I am. Born, raised, and a proud American regardless of my grandparents country of origin.
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