Thread: Hispanics now one-seventh of U.S. population

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Hispanics now one-seventh of U.S. population

Census Bureau estimates 41.3 million in fastest-growing ethnic bloc

The Associated Press
Updated: 12:05 a.m. ET June 9, 2005

WASHINGTON - One of every seven people in the United States is Hispanic, a record number that probably will keep rising because of immigration and a birth rate outstripping that of non-Hispanic blacks and whites.

The country’s largest minority group accounted for one-half of the overall population growth of 2.9 million between July 2003 and July 2004, according to a Census Bureau report being released Thursday.

The agency estimated there are 41.3 million Hispanics in the United States. The bureau does not ask people about their legal status; that number is intended to include both legal and other residents.

The population growth for Asians ran a close second. Increases in both groups are due largely to immigration, but also higher birth rates, said Lewis W. Goodman, an American University expert on U.S.-Latin American relations.

“If we didn’t have those elements, we would be moving into a situation like Japan and Europe ... where the populations are graying in a way that is very alarming and endangering their productivity and endangering even their social security systems,� he said.

Most immigrants to the United States tend to arrive in their 20s, when many people have children. A far greater percentage of whites than Hispanics is 65 or older; the opposite is true of those under 18.

Immigration a heated issue

Immigration has become a volatile issue in Congress and border states, as well as in Georgia and other places where there has been a surge in new arrivals. Critics say lax enforcement of immigration laws has allowed millions of people to enter the U.S. illegally, take jobs from legal residents and drain social services.

The Hispanic growth rate for the 12 months starting July 2003 was 3.6 percent, compared with the overall population growth of 1 percent.

The growth rate was 3.4 percent for Asians, 1.7 percent for native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, 1.3 percent for blacks, 1 percent for American Indians and Alaska natives, and 0.8 percent for whites.

That meant that at the beginning of July last year, the population was an estimated 294 million, with the following racial and ethnic breakdown: 240 million whites, 39.2 million blacks, 14 million Asians, 4.4 million native Indians and Alaskans, and 980,000 native Hawaiians and other islanders.

The numbers for all races and ethnic groups do not add up to the total because 4.4 million people listed themselves as having more than one race.

‘Different face’ of America

The Census Bureau counts “Hispanic� or “Latino� as an ethnicity rather than a race, so Hispanics can be of any race. The population of non-Hispanic whites indicating no other race increased just 0.3 percent in the past year, to 197.8 million.

“Looking toward the future, we see a different face of the U.S. population,� said Audrey Singer, an immigration and census specialist at the Brookings Institution. “But I don’t think that’s necessarily new. It’s a confirmation that this hasn’t stopped or changed much.�

The size of the Hispanic population and, to a lesser extent, the Asian population, rose in nearly every state over the 1990s. Also, the Census Bureau projected last year that whites and minority groups overall would be roughly equal in size by 2050.

“Sometimes this is portrayed as a problem for the United States â€â€

“My view is just the opposite: increased fertility of young people makes the (social) structure one that is more sustaining of economic production and enables older people to be in a culture where their retirements can be financed.�

"increased fertility of young people makes the social structure one that is more sustaining of economic production and enabes older people to be in a culture where their retirements can be financed"?

WHAT utter socio-economic nonsense.

WHAT total academic babble.

Here is why:

The group in the United States suffering the HIGHEST poverty level is the group of young people with increased fertility having more babies than they can support.

Any moron who thinks baby-making is the way to support the elderly needs his PINK-SLIP.

One child in four lives in poverty. That means both parents are living in poverty if the child has two parents in the household. The baby-makers can't support themselves which is why they just last year increased the FREE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM and RAISED THE POVERTY CAP to qualify more starving children into the program so they would get at least ONE MEAL A DAY.

If any more idiots out there think this way, then please explain to me how the young people with "increased fertility" who can not support themselves, who are not supporting their children, who are living with their parents, the grandparents, who in their "retirement culture" are supporting the entire family tree of three generations, can POSSIBLY support the retirement culture of the future when they can't even support themselves or their children.

This is utter moronic Catholic babble turning our country into a Toilet Bowl of Foods Stamps, Subsidized Housing, filled with Illiterates who will NEVER be part of the "economic production" of our society only the "economic suction" that brings our society to an end.

If you want more babies, then put some signs up in American High Schools, and I'm sure they'll oblige. Importing foreign nationals for "breeding" purposes is about as nauseating a concept as I've heard yet to "support" illegal entry into the United States.

PUT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AND ANY OTHER MORONIC ACADEMY OF DIS-LEARNING THAT "THINK BABBLES" LIKE THIS ON THE OBL BOYCOTT LIST!!

Talk about trying to "breed you up" to "dumb you down", this one wins the GOLD STAR!

If any more idiots out there think this way, then please explain to me how the young people with "increased fertility" who can not support themselves, who are not supporting their children, who are living with their parents, the grandparents, who in their "retirement culture" are supporting the entire family tree of three generations, can POSSIBLY support the retirement culture of the future when they can't even support themselves or their children.

Just use the "fuzzy math" of the Bush administration.

Importing foreign nationals for "breeding" purposes is about as nauseating a concept as I've heard yet to "support" illegal entry into the United States.

Judy, some day way in the future, people are going to look back at this time in American history with amazement and disgust.

First, the excuse for illegal immigration was the need for "cheap" labor. Replacing citizens with cheap labor, either by importing it or sending the work offshore is totally acceptable to the elites of today. I'm sure that the slave owners of 160 years ago would understand this rationale perfectly.

Now, we need immigrant "breeders" to shore up a rapidly failing Social Security system.

This, too, is completely acceptable, even though the product of the breeders themselves will be shafted by the very system that they're supposed to be protecting.

The overall effect this cynical exploitation of humans is going to make the slavery of the past look benign in comparison.

Truly Eloquent CountFloyd!!