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.
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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.
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.
COMMENTARY
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| Alto California belonged to Mexican Baja California, so why would anyone be surprised? |
(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.
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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.]
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).
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.
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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.
