Minority population grows into California majority

[greekfire]

I posted this article from the San Francisco Chronicle (Scripps News) on Population War.com.

San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, May 17, 2007

The nation's minority population topped 100 million last year, about one-third of the total, and California had roughly 20 million minority residents, more than half of its total, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Between the rising minority population _ particularly of Latinos of any race _ and the low median age of Latinos, a new kind of generation gap is arising across the country, experts said Wednesday: Most people over 60 are non-Hispanic whites, and most under 40 are not.

California starkly reflects this new gap. Non-Hispanic white people account for 63 percent of the state's residents age 60 and older. But the population under 40 is 38 percent Latino of any race, 13 percent Asian American, 8 percent black and just 39 percent non-Hispanic white.

Some demographers suspect the new generation gap will heighten the nation's struggle to provide adequate social services and public education.

"The biggest problems will be related to language and culture," said Andrew Scharlach, a professor of aging at UC Berkeley. "The difference may make it hard for nonwhite elders to take advantage of services for English-speaking white elders. There may also be problems in caretaking of white seniors by nonwhite providers."

Mark Mather, director of the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., said researchers there found that states with the highest racial and ethnic diversity spend the least per pupil on education.

"It will be interesting to see if this new type of gap will affect funding for social programs and education spending for youth," he said.

The generation gap arises in part from a higher birth rate among Latino women, who average about three children compared to just under two children for non-Hispanic white, Asian and black people, said Hans Johnson, a demographer with the Public Policy Institute of California, in San Francisco. Mather said the chasm isn't likely to grow.

"We expect the gap to decline in the next 10 or 20 years with the aging of immigrants," Mather said.

Johnson agreed, noting that the immigration rate has been steady since the 1960s.

Latinos of any race were the fastest-growing minority group nationwide, reaching 44.2 million, up 3.4 percent from 2005, according to the annual estimates, which are being released to the public today. In California, Latinos also were the largest group, numbering 13.1 million, more than one-third of the state's total population.

The nation's Asian population grew almost as fast as the Latino between 2005 and 2006 _ more than 3 percent _ and much faster than the non-Hispanic white population, at 0.9 percent, or the black population, at 1.3 percent. But there are still many fewer Asian Americans than Latinos _ about one-third as many _ so the rising number of Asian Americans has not been obvious outside of heavily Asian regions like Northern California.

In addition to the largest Latino population, California has the most Asian Americans, 4.9 million, followed by New York and Texas. The nation's largest black population is in New York, followed by Florida and Texas.

Like California, three other states and Washington, D.C., are now more than 50 percent minority: Hawaii is 75 percent minority, Washington is 68 percent, New Mexico and California are each 57 percent minority, and Texas is 52 percent.

In 2006, the nation's black population passed 40 million, the Asian reached 14.9 million, and the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups each reached 1 million.

In addition to Hispanic, both black and Asian populations got younger in 2006. The non-Hispanic white population was older than the population as a whole, with a median age of 40.5 compared to 36.4.

The Census Bureau's estimates have diverged from the state of California's for many years, and the state's have proven more accurate based on the federal agency's actual counts in 1990 and 2000, Linda Gage, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Finance, said Wednesday.

Gage said both the state and Census Bureau rely heavily on tax returns and birth and death records to create their estimates. But California's use of driver's license records enables it to track down many more residents, including those who don't pay taxes. She said that accounts for her agency's 37.4 million estimate for California's population in July 2006 population being 3 percent higher than the Census Bureau's.

The state has not released other estimates for 2006, but the trends in both agencies' numbers have been similar in most instances.

 

[Cow_tipping]

They should start a new minority support program and open it to whites only (OK OK black people too). but then the majority will be hispanic and will screw them over before that program comes to force.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.

[Cow_tipping]

They should start a new minority support program and open it to whites only (OK OK black people too). but then the majority will be hispanic and will screw them over before that program comes to force.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.

[Coronita]

Joke:

What does U.C.L.A. stand for?

University of Caucasians Lost to Asians.

Since we’re talking about quotas. Let’s drop the asian quotas from colleges. You want to talk about discrimination, play both fields in terms of fairness.

[Coronita]

Joke:

What does U.C.L.A. stand for?

University of Caucasians Lost to Asians.

Since we’re talking about quotas. Let’s drop the asian quotas from colleges. You want to talk about discrimination, play both fields in terms of fairness.

[nla]

How about USC?

University of Spoiled Chinese. j/k

[nla]

How about USC?

University of Spoiled Chinese. j/k

[an]

I always thought USC = University of Spoiled Children :-). But UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants :-).

[an]

I always thought USC = University of Spoiled Children :-). But UCI = University of Chinese Immigrants :-).

[Anonymous]

Over 50% of the engineering students at UC Irvine are foreigners. Are Americans losing seats to these folks or are we just not applying? If American’s with 96% GREs are losing seats to foreigners with 99% GREs, something aint right. I believe the real answer is that Americans just aren’t applying, and that is an even bigger shame.

[Anonymous]

Over 50% of the engineering students at UC Irvine are foreigners. Are Americans losing seats to these folks or are we just not applying? If American’s with 96% GREs are losing seats to foreigners with 99% GREs, something aint right. I believe the real answer is that Americans just aren’t applying, and that is an even bigger shame.

[Cow_tipping]

Americans study art and other subjects that seem to favor an easy sailing or somehting they “Like”. Injuns and asians in general study what will get them employed. Or they study what their parents tell them to.
Face it, engineering and physics and math (building blocks of how the world works) isn’t something you can party all night and still manage to pass the next day.
There is no quota for foreigners. Most Graduate students in any US engineering program got there because of their ability to learn and their willingness to teach under graduates. The schools pay foreign grad students to come work/study there. There are a million restrictions (like having to work in the department you are studying in, and minimum number of credits you need to take per semester and what not) and yet its over run by immigrants.
This trend of “studying what you like” is as cute as the dodo bird. Soon it will bring down the whole country as we lose ground to every other nation on earth. I am talking this as a father of a 4 year old who I dont believe will ever get the education he needs in high school to work his way through an engineering program if things dont change. I studied math and physics and chemistry and biology and every damn thing under the sun, liked it, didn’t have a choice and I had to keep at it inspite of failing at it if I wanted to have a roof over my head and food to eat (OK OK not that bad) but what I wasn’t realising was that, I was failing at a higher and higher level. Then I realised, I have a 50% success rate. Then much much later I realised they were teaching me 400% of what I needed to live in the world. I studied Civil engineering and now work as a software engineer. Case closed. Less than 25% of my time in Under grad was spent doing Computer science. More than enough to make a difference in your life.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.

[Cow_tipping]

Americans study art and other subjects that seem to favor an easy sailing or somehting they “Like”. Injuns and asians in general study what will get them employed. Or they study what their parents tell them to.
Face it, engineering and physics and math (building blocks of how the world works) isn’t something you can party all night and still manage to pass the next day.
There is no quota for foreigners. Most Graduate students in any US engineering program got there because of their ability to learn and their willingness to teach under graduates. The schools pay foreign grad students to come work/study there. There are a million restrictions (like having to work in the department you are studying in, and minimum number of credits you need to take per semester and what not) and yet its over run by immigrants.
This trend of “studying what you like” is as cute as the dodo bird. Soon it will bring down the whole country as we lose ground to every other nation on earth. I am talking this as a father of a 4 year old who I dont believe will ever get the education he needs in high school to work his way through an engineering program if things dont change. I studied math and physics and chemistry and biology and every damn thing under the sun, liked it, didn’t have a choice and I had to keep at it inspite of failing at it if I wanted to have a roof over my head and food to eat (OK OK not that bad) but what I wasn’t realising was that, I was failing at a higher and higher level. Then I realised, I have a 50% success rate. Then much much later I realised they were teaching me 400% of what I needed to live in the world. I studied Civil engineering and now work as a software engineer. Case closed. Less than 25% of my time in Under grad was spent doing Computer science. More than enough to make a difference in your life.
Cool.
Cow_tipping.

[forsale_2007]

I’ll tell you what I found interesting…..When I was in high school (a long long time ago, in a galaxy not far away)….I recall the irony of my Senior Advanced Placement English class….70% of the class were Asians…The overall Asian population in the school was 25%….The second irony was that I was actually in the AP English class. My engrish is horrific, and yet somehow I did ok in that class…

I won’t even talk about the Calc and Physics classes…

Actually in college, my engineering classes consisted mostly of (1)really smart immigrants (asians/indians/russians) or (2) intellectually smart 2nd gen asians but practically stupid..because…the “really smart” 2nd generation asians figured out that is was much better to spend the same time working to be a lawyer or investment banker. Yeah, I fell into the #2 category….

The thing I noticed growing up is that several Americans simply didn’t seem to care too much about education, which I thought was “odd”.

And the thing that drives me up the wall is how bad some people are at math.. I recall being at a store, and the cash register was down. The clerk couldn’t figure out how much 10% off something was, and went searching for a calculator….And when I told that person, the clerk asked me how I figured it out so quickly…..Ok, I can’t figure out sqrt’s in my head like my wife from overseas can. But come on, 10%????? Don’t believe me? Watch that TV show “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?” and see at some of the ridiculously simple math questions that are asked, and see how people can’t answer those questions….

[forsale_2007]

I’ll tell you what I found interesting…..When I was in high school (a long long time ago, in a galaxy not far away)….I recall the irony of my Senior Advanced Placement English class….70% of the class were Asians…The overall Asian population in the school was 25%….The second irony was that I was actually in the AP English class. My engrish is horrific, and yet somehow I did ok in that class…

I won’t even talk about the Calc and Physics classes…

Actually in college, my engineering classes consisted mostly of (1)really smart immigrants (asians/indians/russians) or (2) intellectually smart 2nd gen asians but practically stupid..because…the “really smart” 2nd generation asians figured out that is was much better to spend the same time working to be a lawyer or investment banker. Yeah, I fell into the #2 category….

The thing I noticed growing up is that several Americans simply didn’t seem to care too much about education, which I thought was “odd”.

And the thing that drives me up the wall is how bad some people are at math.. I recall being at a store, and the cash register was down. The clerk couldn’t figure out how much 10% off something was, and went searching for a calculator….And when I told that person, the clerk asked me how I figured it out so quickly…..Ok, I can’t figure out sqrt’s in my head like my wife from overseas can. But come on, 10%????? Don’t believe me? Watch that TV show “Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader?” and see at some of the ridiculously simple math questions that are asked, and see how people can’t answer those questions….

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