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Related: About this forumTexas gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident last year
by Alexas Ura and Connie Hanzhang Jin, Texas TribuneThe gap between Texas Hispanic and white populations continued to narrow last year when the state gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident.
With Hispanics expected to become the largest population group in Texas as soon as 2022, new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed the Hispanic population climbed to nearly 11.4 million an annual gain of 214,736 through July 2018 and an increase of 1.9 million since 2010.
The white population, meanwhile, grew by just 24,075 last year. Texas still has a bigger white population up to 11.9 million last year but it has only grown by roughly 484,000 since 2010. The white populations growth has been so sluggish this decade that it barely surpassed total growth among Asian Texans, who make up a tiny share of the total population, in the same time period.
The estimates come as lawmakers begin to sharpen their focus on the 2021 redistricting cycle, when theyll have to redraw the states congressional and legislative maps to account for population growth. And they highlight the extent to which the demographics of the state continue to shift against the Republican Party.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/06/20/texas-hispanic-population-pace-surpass-white-residents/
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Texas gained almost nine Hispanic residents for every additional white resident last year (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 2019
OP
Which is why they are working double time to get that citizenship question on the census
Tiggeroshii
Jun 2019
#1
The wing-nuts have convinced themselves that it's mostly due to illegal immigration
Vogon_Glory
Jun 2019
#3
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)1. Which is why they are working double time to get that citizenship question on the census
Gothmog
(145,323 posts)2. Texas will be a battleground state
Vogon_Glory
(9,120 posts)3. The wing-nuts have convinced themselves that it's mostly due to illegal immigration
Ive read that a lot of it is due to American citizens getting busy and making babies.
And if the Texas Republican Partys plan to kneecap Planned Parenthood operations in the Lone Star State bear fruit, that increase will increase further as women lose access to affordable birth control.