[Elsie]

I was stuck in a jury pool room on Monday in San Antonio. Fully 2/3 of the names called were Hispanic.

About the same percentage as when Texas became a Republic?

[Ancesthntr]

“About the same percentage as when Texas became a Republic?”

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I don’t know, it is hard to say since no accurate figures were compiled (of which I am aware).

I do know that the present population is somewhere in the region of 25.5% Hispanic statewide (as of 1990...it is probably a few percent higher now), and that it was around 11.5% in 1940 and roughly 17% in 1970. http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab58.pdf

But it is nowhere near 2/3, as I observed (non-scientifically).