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Posted on 08/15/2006 11:53:07 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - America's growing diversity has reached nearly every state.
From South Carolina's budding immigrant population to the fast-rising number of Hispanics in Arkansas, minority groups make up an increasing share of the population in every state but one, according to figures released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.
"This is just an extraordinary explosion of diversity all across the United States," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "It's diversity and immigration going hand in hand."
West Virginia is the exception, with its struggling economy and little history of attracting immigrants.
Frey said states that attract large numbers of immigrants can consider it a "badge of economic success." There have, however, been backlashes.
"In some places it will be awhile before they are accepted by the locals," Frey said. "All we have to do is look at this immigration debate."
Immigration policy is a big issue in this year's midterm congressional elections, and the new data help explain why. Immigrants — legal and illegal — make up a growing portion of the population in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Nationally, they went from 11.1 percent of the population in 2000 to 12.4 percent last year.
The 2005 figures are from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which is replacing the "long form" on the 10-year census. Starting this year, the annual survey of about 3 million households provides yearly data on communities of 65,000 or larger. By 2010, it will provide annual multiyear averages for the smallest neighborhoods covered by the 10-year census.
The data released Tuesday cover, race, immigration, education and age characteristics. Economic and housing data will be released in the coming weeks.
The survey, which cost $170 million in 2005, has limitations. For example, only people living in households were surveyed. That excludes the 3 percent of people who live in nursing homes, hospitals, college dormitories, military barracks, prisons and other dwellings known as group quarters.
Also, the numbers for Gulf Coast states do not reflect the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which scattered hundreds of thousands of people last year.
Among the findings:
_Education levels increased in every state from 2000 to 2005. Nationally, the share of adults 25 and older with at least a high school diploma increased from 80 percent to 84 percent. The share of adults with at least a bachelor's degree increased from 24 percent to 27 percent.
_Every state is getting older. Nationally, the median age — the one at which half the population is older and half is younger — went from 35.3 in 2000 to 36.4 last year.
_Hispanics increased their hold as the country's largest minority group, at 14.5 percent of the population, compared with 12.8 percent for blacks.
Hispanic is a term for people with ethnic backgrounds in Spanish- speaking countries. Hispanics can be of any race, and most in the U.S. are white. When demographers talk about the shrinking percentage of white people in America, generally they are talking about whites who are not Hispanic.
_Such whites are a minority in four states — Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas — and the District of Columbia. The share of white people fell below 60 percent in three other states — Maryland, Georgia and Nevada. Nationally, non-Hispanic whites make up about 67 percent of the population, down from 70 percent at the start of the decade.
California, New York, Texas and Florida have the nation's largest immigrant populations. The new data show that immigrants will travel beyond those states if there are jobs available.
South Carolina's immigrant population grew by 47 percent since 2000, more than any other state. Hispanics grew by 48 percent in Arkansas, the most of any state.
Michael MacFarlane, South Carolina's state demographer, said immigrants and Hispanics were attracted by a healthy economy that offered jobs requiring few skills.
"They are in all sorts of construction, food processing, service jobs, the whole spectrum, where they used to be primarily in agriculture," MacFarlane said.
West Virginia, meanwhile, was one of only two states in which the percentage of white people grew. The other was Hawaii, where whites are an increasing minority.
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Why is a nation that is so despised by so much of the world's population and its own neighbors, also the first place to which they all want to move?
So, why can't I get all those minority perks?
"Diversity" - buzz word to convince liberals to accept the peonification of the American middle class. Bush calls it "growth" and "compassion" and "family values."
The money pays for buzz words appealing to all parts of the political spectrum.
Translation: That icky anglo self-rule is waining. Hooray! Hip hip hooray!
They believe that they can help destroy it from within.
And they can't wait to turn the U.S. into the hovel they escaped from. Incredible...
So, in twenty years we'll be bombing the crap out of Islamofascists while speaking Spanish.........Das okay!.........
And I can blame the majority for all my problems in life.
Maybe senior-citizen Limbaugh will become Whitey's own "Jesse Jackson"?
As The World Turns....
God forbid the folks at AP would ever identify the political leanings (Far-left/Socialist/Communist) of the Brookings Institution.
Typical AP slant!
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
You are right. I'm through with Bush and the Republicans I will vote Constitution Party from now on.
Isn't it laughable how they say that California, New York, Florida and Texas have the largest "immigrant" populations?
What they really mean is that California, New York, Florida and Texas have the largest population of ILLEGAL ALIENS!
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Me three.
Screw `em. I'm sittin the next one out.
All it gets you is jury duty anyway.
- Such whites are a minority in four states — Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas — and the District of Columbia.
These above States: Does this mean Whites can now get Affirmative Action money for School/Business and/or get hiring preferences and promotions?
"Screw `em. I´m sittin the next one out."
That will do a lot of good. Let the Democrats win and watch as our nation goes down the toobs. Brilliant!
Ha! Double-Ha! Whites will NEVER be allowed ANY sort of racial preferences. Long after White people go extinct, there will be myths and legends told around the campfires about the evil White People who once oppressed the world's peaceful People of Color and were responsible for all humanity's ills.
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