White people are now a minority in Texas (4th State!)

[Modem Butterfly]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050811/ap_on_re_us/census_minorities_1&printer=1;_ylt=AhTjCXns6QIurdH4iuIVaYVH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

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.

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Largest single ethnic group is monority?

Must be some definition of minority I never heard of.

[Modem Butterfly]

5. Within the state of Texas

[One_Life_To_Give]

11. I read it as 49% white

32% Hispanic

[bos1]

2. That rocks.

No fear of a black planet here (or brown).

[Greeby]

3. Whites no longer in the majority

Does that mean Texas will stop being dominated by Repukes? :shrug:

[onehandle]

7. Nope.

Guess who has the cash.

[Gato Moteado]

9. one would hope

but there are so many rednecks there (the fake christian type) and they vote in droves. most of the hispanics in tx probably aren't citizens and can't vote.

[question everything]

4. Yet they still vote for Bush, and Lott and DeLay.. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

6. Ye gods! The brown people are invading!!

We are finished! We must flee! Surely, this heralds the End Of All There Is. All it will take now is gay marriage, and our entire society will be ripped apart at the seams! Get your pasty white asses in gear and run for your lives!! ;)

[Modem Butterfly]

8. "Fear of a Beige Planet"

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. But until we take money out of politics and switch over to

proportional representation, these groups will be underrepresented by their gov't.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. I wish the press would learn what "minority" and "majority" mean

These reports are always phrased awkwardly. There is no majority racial/ethnic group in Texas, CA, NM or HI. Grouping all all the previous minority groups together as "majority-minority" is asinine and borderline racist because it may imply that this disparate groups act as one against the former majority group. I also find the contention that having large counts of minorities is bringing down the states ("these areas risk becoming poorer and less competitive.")

It IS big news that there is no one group in the majority. I think it's still true that white populations have a plurality in these states. It will be even bigger news when a group other than non-Hispanic whites are the majority population in a state.

[izzie]

13. My God and I think Maine is 98 percent white.

The last time I really thought about this was a trip to NYC and I think no white person was in a service job but the man who checked us into the hotel. I did not even think about it for days until I get mad talking to some one I was trying to get information from who was speaking English so bad and I got thinking that all of this trip had been like this. Our laws are in English and I think we should all speak it. I know that sounds odd but I do feel we must have one thing in common to stay together as a country and it is what we started off as in our bill of rights etc. That should be the law of the land.

[kenny blankenship]

14. Help me out with a question

Is this guy white or not?

If that's not white it's a damn good impression.