News8Austin: Hispanics on pace to surpass whites
New state population estimates show Hispanics are still on pace to outnumber whites in Texas by 2020 and they may even do it sooner, according to data from the Texas State Data Center's biennial population projection released this week.[...]
The traditional projection has non-Hispanic whites becoming less than half the population next year. That projection holds that Hispanics would edge non-Hispanic whites in 2020, with Hispanics becoming a majority by 2035.
But if trends continue as they did from 2000 to 2002, non-Hispanic whites could lose the majority this year, with Hispanics becoming the largest ethnic group by 2015 and the Texas majority by 2030.
Copyright 2004 Associated Press, All rights reserved.
The website of the Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer has the full data.
I'm not worried about "wetbacks comin' to take our jobs!". If a voluntary arrangment can be worked out between potential employee and potential employer, then go for it. The size of the job market isn't locked in stone and one man's employment doesn't require the unemployment of another.
This only concerns me to the extent these people demand government provide for their lives, which, on balance, they will. It really doesn't matter what ethnic group you are a part of these days; clear majorities want greater government involvement in our lives. Neither Democrats/liberals or Republicans/conservatives have good responses to this. On average, the former want to increase the number, strength, reach of worker protection laws and on average the latter want to use the law to swing their nationalism clubs around to protect Americans and our cultural integrity.
Besides, there will be far bigger things to worry about during that future time than larger percentages of nonwhites in our state.
UPDATE(1:57pm)
On a related note...ABCNEWS: San Antonio Is Nation's 8th Largest City
San Antonio has eclipsed Dallas as the nation's eighth-largest city, buoyed by a steady population influx and plenty of room to spread out.According to estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau, San Antonio had about 1,214,725 residents compared to Dallas' 1,208,318. The annual estimate measured population as of July 1, 2003.
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At around 1.7 million in population, the San Antonio metropolitan area remains far smaller than that of the Dallas-Fort Worth region, which stands at about 5.6 million and is climbing heartily.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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i have done drywall for 28 years and now cannot live on my pay
because of the the wetbacks what can i do help help help
Mr. Moses, you could do two things. First, respect people who want to make a living just like you do. Who cares where they come from? Second, adapt to a changing job market. If you can't survive by working with drywall, do something else.
Posted by: Drizz on December 6, 2004 11:07 AM