Texas Is Now Plurality Hispanic

[applegrove]

Texas Is Now Plurality Hispanic

June 22, 2023 at 2:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 78 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/22/texas-is-now-plurality-hispanic/

"SNIP.......

The Texas Tribune reports Texas is now 40.2% Hispanic and 39.8% non-Hispanic white.

.......SNIP"

[Model35mech]

1. The census bureau still counts many Hispanics as 'WHITE"

if that's how citizens identify themselves. This happens because the census bureau doesn't have a racial category of Hispanic. Hispanic in the buraeucracy's view appears to be a category of group composed of people who speak language variants of Spanish. Racially they may be indigenous peoples (originating in various countries) or descendants of Europeans

[walkingman]

2. I personally think the Democratic Party would do well to put as much effort

into attracting the Hispanic vote as possible. Hispanics tend to be a more religious, more entrepreneurial, more working class than the typical voter. We need more Latino candidates, target the Hispanic vote more through social media - they are tend to be a young population and maybe most importantly be engaged on a personal level - inviting them into our BIG TENT party.

The Hispanic community is the fastest growing group of voters in Texas.

[usonian]

3. Six states are majority-minority as of July 2019

Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland.

Majority minority in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority_in_the_United_States


In the United States of America, majority-minority area or minority-majority area is a term describing a U.S. state or jurisdiction whose population is composed of less than 50% non-Hispanic whites. Racial data is derived from self-identification questions on the U.S. Census and on U.S. Census Bureau estimates. (See Race and ethnicity in the United States Census). The term is often used in voting rights law to designate voting districts that are designed under the Voting Rights Act to enable ethnic or language minorities "the opportunity to elect their candidate of choice." In that context, the term was first used by the Supreme Court in 1977. The Court had previously used the term in employment discrimination and labor relations cases.

Six states are majority-minority as of July 2019: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland.

[Chainfire]

4. That stat will have a lot of white Texan heads exploding.