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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhites now a minority in California, New Mexico and Hawaii.
Demographers had expected the shift for decades as the state's Hispanic population boomed due to immigration and birth rates. Many thought it would happen sooner than it did, but a slight decline in population pushed it to last year.
California joins New Mexico as the second state with a Latino plurality. Hawaii, with its large Asian population, is the third state where whites aren't the largest ethnic group.
Collective conservative heads pop in 3........2......
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I recall seeing articles that say white people nationwide will be a minority in this or that year, but they do it by combining all non-white people together as one "race" that is over 50%. That always bugged me for some reason.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)I had to laugh at myself when I'd go back east and "Wow, look at all these white people!" would enter my mind. You do get used to being another minority quickly when it happens.
Fortunately, my brown and black friends, coworkers and neighbors are tolerant.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and NOT the way Trump has.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)rather than play into the Republican politics of division.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I will really miss good Tex Mex and Mexican food. However, that will be replaced with good pizza, Italian, real delis, pierogis, Puerto Rican food, etc. Cleveland has a great ethnic mix (at least they did when I left in 92)
olddots
(10,237 posts)as a caucasion I find the caucasions in L.A. to be inferior in most areas but thats my opinion based on 39 years of Tinsel Town dumbth .
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)johnp3907
(3,732 posts)Remember this one?:
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Not Decades away ...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)jomin41
(559 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)but the other two are doing fine, thank you very much.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Meh.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)Hekate
(90,793 posts)The Hawai'i model is to intermarry like mad, but I don't know what the Mainlanders are going to do about it.
Number23
(24,544 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)There a lot of cities there with 80+% Latino populations ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_communities_with_Hispanic_majority_populations_in_the_2000_census
hunter
(38,326 posts)... kept that way by the unspoken and eventually illegal collusion of real estate agents, lenders, landlords, and police whose favorite sport was dwb's and other forms of harassment.
But haven't lived in such a place for most of my life now. I'm most comfortable in places where I'm a white minority.
My middle school and high school experience was pretty miserable. I was a squeaky skinny reactive kid and target of much bullying, so I quit high school for college and never looked back.
My wife and I were big city science teachers when we married, both of us teaching in underfunded, overcrowded, worn out public schools. The school where I taught was majority Latino, and the rest a cosmopolitan mix of black, white, Asian, and Pacific Islander kids.
That's pretty much what I consider an ordinary California community now. Any California community south of the Sutter Buttes that's still lily white, I may begin to wonder why.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)We have Cruz and Rubio both running for Pres. and they are Senators.
Fla. and Cal. and the SW will have Congressional representation pretty fast, compared to the Med-west.
Now, LatinAS are needed too, in politics.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I'm just a very pale 3rd generation Ethiopian.