Minorities Often a Majority of the Population Under 20

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Foreshadowing the nation’s changing makeup, one in four American counties have passed or are approaching the tipping point where black, Hispanic and Asian children constitute a majority of the under-20 population, according to analyses of census figures released Thursday.

Racial and ethnic minorities now account for 43 percent of Americans under 20. Among people of all ages, minorities make up at least 40 percent of the population in more than one in six of the nation’s 3,141 counties.

The latest population changes by race, ethnicity and age, as of July 1, 2007, were generally marginal compared with the year before. But they confirm the breadth of the nation’s diversity, and suggest that minorities — now about a third of the population — might constitute a majority of all Americans even sooner than projected by census demographers, in 2050.

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All but one of the 82 counties where blacks make up a majority are in the South (except St. Louis), all but two of the 46 where Hispanics are in the majority are in the South or the West (except the Bronx and Seward, Kan., home to giant meatpacking plants), and four of the five counties with the largest proportion of Asians are in Hawaii (San Francisco rounds out the top five with 33 percent).

Except for two counties in New Mexico and South Dakota with large American Indian populations, the 10 counties with the highest proportion of minorities were along or near the Mexican border.

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An analysis by Kelvin Pollard and Mark Mather of the Population Reference Bureau found 489 counties where a majority among people younger than 20 are racial and ethnic minorities and another 274 where they account for 40 percent to 50 percent of people in that age group.

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In 109 of the 302 majority-minority counties, no single minority made up more than half the total population.

In the New York metropolitan area, the changes suggested that the city was experiencing a racial equilibrium while the suburbs were becoming more diverse.

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Almost five times as many counties are losing white children as gaining them. A growing number of minority families with children are clustering in suburban and Sun Belt counties.

At the other extreme, he said, “are counties in the nation’s industrial heartland, inner suburbs and Great Plains that are losing their largely white child and young adult populations.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/us/07census.html

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NYT must be including Arabs, Indians (India+Native), and Asians into the "Hispanic" category, because there's no way in hell that it's 75%+ anywhere in this area.

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NYT must be including Arabs, Indians (India+Native), and Asians into the "Hispanic" category, because there's no way in hell that it's 75%+ anywhere in this area.

Which area?

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NYT must be including Arabs, Indians (India+Native), and Asians into the "Hispanic" category, because there's no way in hell that it's 75%+ anywhere in this area.

Which area?

The entire Bay Area area. The only town I've ever seen that can even match that, or even close to it, is Watsonville, some hick ### town in the middle of nowhere. Ironically, that's where my lawyer is from, and boy did I ever get looks when I told him I was filing for an I-129F instead of a B2+Marriage+AOS.

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I downloaded the image onto my HD and zoomed in for a better look.

The only county in CA at the darkest shade of orange (75%+ Hispanics) is the right at the Mexican border.

So no, they're not attributing 75%+ to any county in the Bay Area.

Here's the zoom. Notice how the darkest shading of orange is right at the border:

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Damn, so much for my rant.

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There goes the neighborhood.