[dragnet2]

In that time frame, TX has gone from 11.9% to 11.8%

Are you suggesting the black pop in TX has dropped by a tiny fraction?

And if so, your conclusion is what?

Fact is, Texas has about double the black population of California, and one of the big factors why crime is so high in Texas.

No?

[Zhang Fei]

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Are you suggesting the black pop in TX has dropped by a tiny fraction?

And if so, your conclusion is what?

Fact is, Texas has about double the black population of California, and one of the big factors why crime is so high in Texas.

No?

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Yes and no. From 1990 to 2010, all ethnicities have had population increases. The background is that Hispanics in TX have increased massively as a % of TX’s population, due to TX being a border state, and a major destination for Central and South American illegals. Blacks in TX have remained constant as a % of the population while Anglos have plunged in % terms (from 61% in 1990 to 45% in 2010) because of black in-migration from states like CA. Nonetheless, per capita crime in CA is about the same as per capita crime in TX, probably because incarceration rates are far higher in TX.

What I was pointing out is that at the peak of the cocaine wars in 1992, TX (800 violent crime incidents per 100K people) had a lower crime rate than CA (1100 similar incidents), but this kind of went south with the migration to TX of blacks from CA and other states, including LA. TX used to be safer than CA back when TX had 11.9% to CA’s 7.4% black population. Now that it’s 11.8% to 5.6%, TX is about neck and neck (450 violent incidents per 100K people) compared to CA (440 similar incidents).

[Zhang Fei]

My guess is that the black influx into the state (along with that of the Latin American illegals) also helped to crater test scores - something that Texas Democrats never tire of bringing up whenever Rick Perry’s name is mentioned.