Orphans found, poor sent to farms

(Erased Century) First movie EVER made was about babies from cabbage plants in 1896: CP Kids

(Erased Century) Every county in America had a place where people were disappeared | They called them "poor farms" or almshouses.

• Thomas Benjamin Kennington's Orphans

Why 82% of Mexico is empty (video)

RealLifeLore, Feb. 18, 2023; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexican food is best.

(RealLifeLore) A large portion of the country of Mexico, or the United Mexican States as it's really named, is little populated, whereas most of its population of 128 million is squeezed into a tight band at the center. Why? And why has it been like this for so long? In looking into it, we find out a lot about the USA, too.

• Buddhism in Mexico

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Plants that count and communicate (TED Talk)

Dr. Greg Gage (TED, Nov. 1, 2017); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate

We're alive and conscious, humans!

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the human brain out of college-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and the TED stage).

 

Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves shut when touched, and the Venus flytrap -- that clamps to catch its prey -- to an EKG machine to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement, and count.
 

Check out more TED Talks at ted.com. The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment, and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts, and more. Twitter.com/TEDTalks, facebook.com/TED.

US Latin population growth slips behind Asians

Russell Contreras (twitter.com/russcontreras/BigStory.ap.org/The Associated Press (via mail.com); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The growth of the U.S. Latino (Latina, Latinx) population -- once the nation's fastest growing -- slowed considerably over the past seven years and slipped behind that of Asian Americans amid declining "Hispanic" immigration and birth rates, a study released [September 8th, 2016] found.

Update: I hate social media.

The Pew Research Center study, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data, found that the U.S. Hispanic population grew annually on average by 2.8 percent between 2007 and 2014. That's down from the 4.4 percent annual growth from 2000 to 2007, before the Great Recession [which was a new Depression].

 

By comparison, the Asian American population grew around 3.4 percent on average annually during the same period. William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, the slower growth is largely a factor of the economy. A slower economy is influencing families to hold off on having more children, and it's discouraging migration amid stronger border enforcement, he said.

 

Kenneth M. Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy, said U.S. Hispanic women between the ages of 20 to 24 have seen a 36 percent decline in birth rates.

 

"That's by far the largest decline of any other group," Johnson said. Despite slowing population growth, Latinos still accounted for 54 percent of the nation's population growth between 2000 and 2014, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

 

KFI AM's roving reporter Jo Kwon at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona with zebra (KFI).

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Regional growth patterns also have changed some following the economic downturn of 2007 reflecting the changing economies of states, the study found. Counties in the South continued to account for the largest share of the nation's Hispanic population growth -- 43 percent between 2007 and 2014.

Among the other fastest-growing counties for Latinos were Luzerne County in Pennsylvania, Beadle County in South Dakota, Duchesne County in Utah, and Burleigh County in North Dakota.

"Latinos are coming to Utah because the government here is doing a lot to create jobs," said Rogelio Franco of Entre Latinos, a Salt Lake City, Utah advocacy group that works to integrate Hispanics into the state. Entre Latinos was not affiliated with the study.

 

Franco said he thinks the declining birth rate is a result of Latino millennials holding off on having children while pursuing their education. "They are planning more," Franco said. "They are focusing on other things."

I'm white, you're Latina, and we're best friends. Should we go to Hawaii again? - No.

 

The growth in North Dakota's statewide Latino population nearly doubled to 18,000, making it the state with the highest Hispanic growth rate over seven years. Though small in numbers compared to states like California and Texas, the rise in Latino residents has put pressures on local governments and nonprofits to accommodate the new residents.

 

For example, in 2014 Catholic nuns from Mexico were sent to North Dakota to help serve new Hispanic parishioners in that state. North Dakota had experienced an oil boom until recently, attracting workers from around the country. It remains one of the least diverse states in the country. 

• The Making of a People: "Hispanics" and the Future of America (NCBI)
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I'm Asian, you're Jewish, should we run FB?

"Latino population growth has become less concentrated in counties with historically large Latino populations and whose Latino population grew by at least 10,000," the study's authors wrote. Though the growth has slowed in the last seven years, the Latino population in the South has exploded when examined over 14 years.

We're not a model.

From 2000 to 2014, Latino populations in Tennessee and South Carolina, for example, nearly tripled. North Carolina also saw its population spike 136 percent since 2000, the report said. Mauricio Castro, an organizer with the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations, said Latino immigrants coming to the region tend to work in the construction or service industry.

Still, between 2007 and 2014, nearly 40 counties experienced declines in the percentage of Latinos. Most of those counties were in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas -- states with traditionally large Hispanic populations.

 

Frey said once the U.S. economy starts picking up, he expects to see a return of higher rates of immigration and increase births. "This is not the end of Latino growth in the United States by any means," Frey said. Source

White males to decide who's "white"

Russell Contreras (AP.org); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

But I'm not "black," so why are you arresting me, man? Why are you treating me black?

 
Census changes could make whites less than 50 percent sooner

L-R: Racial Statistics Branch Chief (US Census Bureau) Nicholas Jones, panelists Nat'l American Indian Housing Council Executive Director Mellor Willie, Navajo Nation Deputy Director of the Washington Office Simon Boyce, Nat'l Indian Education Assn. Exec. Director Colin Kippen and Nat'l Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Kevin Gover, present graph of Native American pop. during a forum about the American Indian and Alaska native population at the NMAI in DC. US Census Bureau is testing new questions on tribal enrollment for the 2020 count in an effort to get a more accurate tally of American Indians. Census director Thompson told AP on 11-17-15 that the agency is aiming to avoid a 5 percent undercount seen in 2010 (AP).

  

We still get to be "human" right, men?

(Nov. 18, 2015) ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The U.S. Census Bureau is considering changes to its race and ethnicity questions that would reclassify some minorities who were considered "white" in the past, a move that may speed up the date when America's white population falls below 50 percent.
 
["White" is a fluid social construct, not a fixed biological reality, that comes with very real privileges.]

"Race" is a fluid cultural categorization.

Census Director John Thompson told The Associated Press this week that the bureau is testing a number of new questions and may combine its race and ethnicity questions into one category for the 2020 census. That would allow respondents to choose multiple races.
 

I still get to mark "white" right, guys? (AP)

The possible changes include allowing Latinos to give more details about their ethnic backgrounds and creating a new, distinct category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent.
 

"We haven't made any decisions yet," Thompson said in an interview before his meeting Tuesday with American Indian leaders in New Mexico.
 

Yes! Irish now get to be "white"!

"But I don't think these new questions would diminish anything. It would just give us more information about our diverse populations."

William H. Frey, a demographer with the [conservative] Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, says the proposed changes would grant residents more freedom to define their race and ethnicity.
 
"I don't know if this will make a huge difference in the 2020 census on whites becoming the minority, but it could later," said Frey, author of "Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America."

In the past, "white" was the only racial option available to Arab-American respondents, a classification that didn't truly reflect their social standing and hurt efforts for their political empowerment in post-Sept. 11th America, said Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

I want to be your king, white men (NPR).

"If you are going to classify me as white, then treat (me) as white," Khalaf said, "especially when I go to the airport [and am the subject of racial profiling]. So yeah, it's inaccurate."

 

For years, many U.S. Latinos also checked the "white" box because options were limited, said Lorenzo Cano, associate director of the Center of Mexican American Studies at the Univ. of Houston. But many Latinos are now opting to check "American Indian" to identify with their links to indigenous populations in Latin America.

We'll take that guy. Or Trump (KKK).

Overall, "these changes could reduce the number of people who identify as white," Cano said. The Census Bureau has estimated that the country's population will have more minorities than whites for the first time around 2043 or 2044, a result of higher birth rates among Hispanics and a stagnating or declining birth rate among blacks, whites, and Asians.

How much the changes could speed up the moment when minorities will outnumber whites is anyone's guess. Analysts would first have to examine the new data -- some of which won't be comparable to 2010 because of the possible new categories, Frey said.

The proposed changes could present a new set of challenges for the Census Bureau. For example, Dee Ann Alexander, a census tribal specialist, said Mexican-Americans who check the "American Indian" box could deter efforts to get an accurate count of enrolled tribal members living in cities.

"It's a concern," Alexander said. "Around 74 percent of Native Americans live in urban areas, and it's a challenge to search for that population."

 

In addition, an aggressive push by the census to include Arab-Americans in the count might lead to more suspicion because many of them fear the federal government, Khalaf said.

White men will rule a police state if necessary.

"They think it will put them under surveillance," he said. "They won't fill (the census) out because they don't want to be on any list." Still, such new questions could give a more accurate assessment of a changing America at a time when 15 percent of all marriages involve couples of difference races, Frey said.

Colleges reverse racism due to students.

"And who knows how their children will identify," he said. Cano said he can see some in the country becoming alarmed at the rapid changes, although it will subside eventually as groups continue to intermarry.

"Like we always do, we'll keep moving on," Cano said, "and let love take place." Source

• See more by Russell Contreras at BigStory.ap.org/content/russell-contreras and twitter.com/russcontreras
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Latinos now outnumber whites in California

Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Sheldon, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY); Associated Press (AP) via KPCC (SCPR.org), July 8, 2015
(Selena Gomez) America's new Mexican sweetheart after German-Irish Tadolf Swifler?

Who would date Mexicans or Hispanic Americans and have biracial kids? Who wouldn't?

White-Latinas scramble for selfies with Argentine Pope Francis, touring CEO of the Holy Roman Empire's religious arm, an ancient psy op campaign for Rome to rule the world (AP).

As of July 1, 2015 -- by some statistical calculation based on Census figures reported today -- Latinos finally outnumber whites, but just barely.
 

In long-predicted shift, California Latinos outnumber whites

South Pasadena High School counselor Sandra Jarrous helps tenth grader Erick Amaya and the school's other Latino students on the path to college (Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC.org)

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We're "Mestizos."

The long-expected moment when Latinos surpass whites as California's largest racial or ethnic group has come and gone.

According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in late June, Hispanic [Spain-descended Europeans mixed with indigenous] Californians began to narrowly outnumber white Californians sometime in the first half of 2014.
 

Real Barbie: Are biracial babies "white"?

As of July 1, 2014, the state had about 15 million Latinos to about 14.9 million non-Hispanic whites.
 
Demographers had expected the shift for decades as the state's Hispanic population boomed due to immigration and birth rates.
 
Many thought it would happen sooner than it did, but a slight decline in population pushed it to last year.
 

Whites date Mexicans? (losangelesmexicans)

California joins New Mexico as the second state with a Latino plurality. Hawaii, with its large Asian population, is the third state where whites aren't the largest ethnic group.

• What's the ethnicity of your favorite celeb?

COMMENTARY

Alto California belonged to Mexican Baja California, so why would anyone be surprised?

Jessica Alba and mom are brown in Beverly Hills

(WQ) What's wrong with this study? The social construction of "race" has resulted in all European groups being lumped into one big pile "white" versus everyone else.

UC Berkeley was thought to have a larger "minority" population, but one would never know it walking around campus. How was it being calculated?

"Whites" were lumped into one camp, and "Everyone Else" was lumped into the other. And OMG whites almost weren't the majority.

Wake up: We are all ONE. Love it.

Why not take salient groups and distinguish them? How many food groups of race are there? Four or five by color: brown, yellow, white, red, black. But are "Middle Easterners" white? Many are, depends on their complexion. How about southern Europeans? Some, depends on their complexion.

What about the Irish? No, they are not white. [Wait, this just in. Irish are white.]

Selena Gomez to marry minority!

How about Jews? Just the Ashkenazi (but Jewish is a religion taken as a culture, ethnicity, political party, Zionist, nationality, and anything else anyone says it is such as the "Chosen Ones" of world history).
 
How about white-Hispanics? Brown.

How about whites who claim they're black? White (but socially black).

How about Native Americans? Red. How about ALL Asians? Yellow. Even porcelain white Chinese, Japanese, and Korean models? Yes. (The yellow jaundice was due to eating polished rice and suffering from a condition few now suffer from so, word to the wise, only eat whole-integral-unpolished brown rice).
 

Socially-black white: Rachel Dolezal

Most of the Hispanics or Latinos (anyone from Latin America or, presumably, Latin speaking nations of old like Spain and Italy or at least Rome) being counted in California are indistinguishable from whites. Now, why is that? The Spanish are Europeans, and this is very clear as one enters the country from the north, which means North Catalonia. They're exactly like their French neighbors.

We've made it to the top, Lucy! - Yes

It was only when the Spanish came to the "New World" as imperial European "Old World" invaders (Conquistadors) and raped the women that the mixing began.

This gives us our stereotypical view of what a "Latin American" must look like -- more Latin (white) or more American (brown)? The Spanish of Spain do not look brown, even as they mix with Africans from their southern border and nearby Morocco.

Disagree? Feel free to comment below.

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Latinos [Hispanics] now outnumber whites in CA, census data shows
A Martinez, Alex Cohen, Tess Viglund (Take Two, scpr.org, July 8, 2015)

Latino and Jewish hosts Martinez and Cohen

According newly released data from the Census Bureau, Latinos now outnumber whites as the largest ethnic group in California.

The latest tally of population figures shows that as of July 1st, 14.99 million Latinos live in California, followed by 14.92 million whites.

We need better Barbies like this.

Matt Barreto, professor of political science and Chicano studies at UCLA and co-founder of the polling and research firm Latino Decisions, joined Take Two to discuss the implications of the demographic milestone. More + AUDIO (9:47 mins)

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Dream: Racism ends (MLK Jr.)

Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 won't fill out census form

New York launches its census awareness campaign (AFP/Stan Honda)

WASHINGTON (AP) – With the launch of the decennial census just weeks away, nearly 1 in 5 people may not participate in the high-stakes head count, citing mostly a lack of interest but also a broader distrust of government.

A poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center highlights the challenges as the Census Bureau prepares to begin its tally in March. The findings come as some groups question whether the agency's $300 million outreach effort is doing enough to reach hard-to-count communities.

"The big picture message is they've got a lot of work to do in terms of informing people," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. He cited young people in particular, as well as those with less education and Hispanics who have had less exposure to the census or government. More>>

GET A JOB

The 2010 Census is hiring like crazy. This is how, and this is why. Thousands of Americans are needed to verify questionnaires sent back incomplete. Doing so is a monumental task requiring clerks, crew leaders, supervisors, support staff, and census takers. Guess what? They're all being hired now. The pay runs between $13 to $22.50 an hour. It's easy money for routine work that has all been streamlined and standardized. How do you get hired? Call (866) 861-2010. You'll be routed to your local Census office to sign up for a simple 28 question test. (Take the practice exam to know what to expect at 2010census.gov). You only need 10 out 28 to pass. If you live in an area that needs counting and have a good score, you'll be called in. Let's all count and be counted. The Federal government allocates its funding based on population. The more of us there actually are, the more money will be poured into our area.

NOTE: The more people who refuse to fill out their census forms, which will be mailed out in May, the more jobs/work there will be to get the information in person.