Hispanic Growth Surge Fueled by Births in U.S. - WP

[Burma Jones]

Gee, just as we start killing off the Middle Class.........

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Over the past two decades, the Hispanic population has swelled largely because of immigrants. Although immigration continues at a fast pace, the mix changed this decade, and new immigrants are now outnumbered by babies born in the United States and overwhelmingly likely to remain here. One in five children under 18 is Hispanic, according to the census figures.

"It's due to the settling of immigrants having children here," said Jeffrey S. Passel of the Pew Hispanic Institute. But, he said, "over half of Hispanic adults are immigrants. It takes time for that to play itself out, but by the time today's children grow up, that will have changed."

The future of those young people has become the topic of a debate among advocates and scholars, with some noting that Hispanics already have lower average education levels than other Americans and that their children could face a future at the bottom. Others contend that Hispanics will move up the ladder just as previous generations of immigrants have, citing the example of Italians who arrived here with little education.
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I have to say that the Italians, as well as the Eastern European immigrants, were welcomed by the Steel Mills, Automobile Manufacturers and the myriad other Manufacturing concerns we enjoyed in the 20th century. I don't see a nice, big inclusive path to the middle class anymore in our increasingly winner-take-all society.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802381.html

[Wright Patman]

1. Most Americans will be at the bottom

I think there are something like 385,000 households worth $10 million or more, according to last Sunday's NYT article called "Class Matters."

There are going to be about 100 million American households with little or no (or negative) net worth. The number is already in the tens of millions.

This was always the plan. It's called technofeudalism.

The PATRIOT Act(s) and Homeland Security have nothing to do with "terror" per se. It has to do with protecting those 385,000 households at the top from being "terrorized" by the 100 million at the bottom.

[Burma Jones]

2. Plus, let's not forget Religion

The upsurge in Right Wing Religiosity will also help keep those po' folks quiet. I'll wager that there are far fewer church-goers in the top ten percent of income than in the bottom 90, per capita.....