I will take the Bureau of the Census data over your anecdotal information. How do you differentiate between an Hispanic and a white or black? Almost 50% of Hispanics self-desribe themselves as white. Do you have a one drop rule for Hispanics?
This is why I believe what I believe...because I know what I know and I lived what I lived. why would I lie? So I can get flamed by a bunch of folks on FR whove never in their life had to meet a labor blue collar payroll? Dear Lord get your chicken and egg order straight.
That's the precisely problem. You generalize from your own experience. It is similar to the bubbles that the elites live in on both coasts and in Inside the Beltway in DC where I lived for 36 years. Flyover country is some sort of mystery. Reminds me of the Pauline Kael quote: "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him"; referring to George McGovern's loss to Richard Nixon in in the 1972 presidential election.
go mow the grass and make the bed and leave me and reality alone.....
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.