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Hispanics will overtake non-Hispanic whites to become the largest population group within five years, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Texas added 234,000 Hispanic residents in 2017, more than any other state in the country, to take the Hispanic population total to 11.2 million.
Those numbers represented a flattening out of recent increases, however, leading experts to push back their estimate for when Hispanic will become the largest group in the Lone Star State.
“We had projected that the Latino population would exceed the white population by 2020 and that’s probably not going to happen,” demographer Lloyd Potter told the Dallas Morning News, adding that the shift was now expected to happen in 2022.
The overall shift is as a result of migration as well as a generally higher fertility rates.
originally posted by: Southern Guardian
With that said, this is a strong indication that there are major demographic shifts happening in red states and these shifts are happening fast.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Irishhaf
I don't understand why we have to focus so heavily on race all the time? Anybody have any answers for that?
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Irishhaf
I don't understand why we have to focus so heavily on race all the time? Anybody have any answers for that?
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Irishhaf
if the growing population doesn't have American values I can see that being a problem.
We should be talking about that though and not weather or not someone is Hispanic or Irish what's the difference?
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: Bluntone22
somewhere a white supremacist weeps...
somewhere, everyone else is heard laughing.