Thread: 'Wave of diversity' sweeps across Utah

'Wave of diversity' sweeps across Utah

By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
Updated 3h 8m ago |

Salt Lake City, Utah's largest urban center, grew for the second consecutive decade and the state's long-standing majority-white population is slowly being eroded by a growing Hispanic and Asian presence, according to 2010 Census results released Thursday.

"Four out of 10 new Utah people from 2000 to 2010 are minorities," says Pamela Perlich, senior research economist at the University of Utah's Bureau of Economic and Business Research. "There's a wave of diversity sweeping across the state."

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The changes are more apparent among the young: almost one in four Utah residents under 18 is a minority.

The Census numbers show about 10,000 more Hispanics in the state than demographers had estimated.

Still, whites who are not Hispanic account for more than half the state's overall growth of 24% to 2.8 million. The Hispanic population grew 78% to more than 358,000.

"We're two generations behind the rest of the nation in this wave of diversity," Perlich says.

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The state capital, Salt Lake City, the seat of Mormon Church, had lost population from 1970 to 2000, when it finally showed a turnaround. Much of the growth is attributable to a downtown revival that brought light rail and new housing to the city. The city also benefited from construction for the 2002 Winter Olympics and a new church conference center downtown — projects that attracted many Hispanic construction workers.

"So now the question is how many of those temporary male workers have gone home," Perlich says. "My sense is that a lot of single men ended up with families and kids in our schools."

The southwest corner of the state near the Arizona border, which had attracted speculative housing construction, grew but not as much as expected because many housing permits did not result in any construction when the bubble burst, Perlich says.

Washington County, home of fast-growing St. George, still grew 53% to more than 138,000.

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The Census numbers show about 10,000 more Hispanics in the state than demographers had estimated.

Still, whites who are not Hispanic account for more than half the state's overall growth of 24% to 2.8 million. The Hispanic population grew 78% to more than 358,000.

How is that "diversity"? I thought diversity meant different groups, not just white or hispanic?

there is an obsession in the media about Hispanics. and what about White Hispanics or Black Hispanics or Asian Hispanics. What is this about?

This is nonsense mea culpa far left liberal anti-white non sense!

It is really sad.

Salt Lake City, Utah's largest urban center, grew for the second consecutive decade and the state's long-standing majority-white population is slowly being eroded by a growing Hispanic and Asian presence, according to 2010 Census results released Thursday.

This is exactly what "diversity" is all about. "Eroding" YT!