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Texas Becomes a Majority-Minority State
Aug 11, 7:50 AM (ET)
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Texas has become the
fourth state to have a non-white majority population,
the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday, a trend
driven by a surging number of Hispanics moving to the state.

According to the population estimates based on the
2000 Census, about 50.2 percent of Texans are
now minorities. In the 2000 Census, minorities
made up about 47 percent of the population in the second-largest state.

Texas joins California, New Mexico and Hawaii as
states with majority-minority populations - with Hispanics
the largest group in every state but Hawaii, where it is Asian-Americans.
Five other states - Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia,
New York and Arizona - aren't far behind, with about
40 percent minorities.

Public policy analysts said these states and the country
as a whole need to bring minority education and
professional achievement to the levels of whites.
Otherwise, these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive.

William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution
in Washington, D.C., said lawmakers need to start with
immigration reform, while striving to bring minorities'
education and salary levels in line with Anglos.
"Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important
for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an
eye on the people coming in," Frey said. "While initially
it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national
issue, and education is the best way to deal with it."

Complications from the cultural shift aren't likely to be
exclusive to states that already have majority-minority populations, Frey
said.

Nevada, for instance, has seen a massive influx of minorities
in the last 15 years, reducing the percentage of Anglos since
the 1990s from nearly 80 percent to about 60 percent.
Such a rapid shift is likely to cause growing pains that include
trying to balance the needs of a bigger and younger minority
community with an aging Anglo community, Frey said.
"That's the kind of state that is going to have to deal
with quick transition," Frey said.

Though some areas may never see this shift, the country
as a whole is expected to continue the trend first noticed more than a
decade ago.
The nation should be more than half minorities by 2050, said
Steve Murdock, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
"If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states,
non-Anglo Hispanic populations grew faster than Anglo
populations," Murdock said. "It's a very pervasive pattern."

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Murdock above is correct, he just put it in a much more
'politically correct' way of saying that Mexicans and Latins
IN GENERAL tend to have multiple-babies every 11 Months.

To put it another way....they BREED like rabbits....you'd be
best to learn Espanol as a second language fast Bunkie because
you are seeing the "Reconquista" in action !

What is "The Reconquista"...?
Learn about it he --- http://tinyurl.com/o22s

Messageboard
http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/20...29_comment.php

Other info:

http://www.canadafirst.net/immigration_rally/

http://assaultweb.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
(go to the GENERAL DISCUSSIONS section of the above site)