Thread: U.S. Hispanic population hits 45.5 million

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Hispanics in the United States grew to 45.5 million last year, and the country's largest minority group now makes up more than 15 percent of the U.S. population, the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Thursday.

Hispanics surpassed blacks as the largest U.S. minority in 2003 and continued to widen the gap by growing at nearly three times the pace of the black population, Census Bureau figures showed.

The Hispanic population grew by 1.4 million in the year ending July 1, 2007, while the black population grew by 540,000 to reach a total of 40.7 million, the agency said in a report on minority populations in the United States.

Sixteen states had a Hispanic population of more than 500,000. California was the largest at 13.2 million, followed by Texas at 8.6 million and Florida at 3.8 million.

Twenty states had a black population of more than 500,000, including New York with 3.5 million, and Florida and Texas with 3 million apiece.

Asians made up the third-largest minority group in the United States, with 15.2 million. American Indians and Alaska natives totaled 4.5 million while native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders were 1 million.

The white population was 199.1 million in 2007 while the total minority population was 102.5 million, the Census Bureau said.

Four states and Washington, D.C., had populations where minorities were in the majority. Hawaii was the largest majority-minority state, with 75 percent of the population belonging to minority groups.

Washington, D.C., had a 68 percent minority population followed by New Mexico with 58 percent, California at 57 percent and Texas with 52 percent.

(Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Eric Beech)

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Now the question is, did they include illegal aliens in that number?

I understand that the US Census does include illegal aliens.

If the 45.5 million number includes the illegal aliens, then it's honest to say that as many as half of all Hispanics in the US are illegal aliens, since it is estimated that there are 12-30 million illegal aliens in the US. If you use the lower 12 million estimated number, and Pew Hispanic Center 81% number of illegals from Mexico and South America that means that about 9.72 million or a least 1 in every 4.5 Hispanics are illegal aliens and at most, using 81% of the 30 million CAPS estimate then there are 24.3 million illegal Hispanics or 1.1 in every 2 or more than half.

Dixie

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Now the question is, did they include illegal aliens in that number?

I understand that the US Census does include illegal aliens.

If the 45.5 million number includes the illegal aliens, then it's honest to say that as many as half of all Hispanics in the US are illegal aliens, since it is estimated that there are 12-30 million illegal aliens in the US. If you use the lower 12 million estimated number, and Pew Hispanic Center 81% number of illegals from Mexico and South America that means that about 9.72 million or a least 1 in every 4.5 Hispanics are illegal aliens and at most, using 81% of the 30 million CAPS estimate then there are 24.3 million illegal Hispanics or 1.1 in every 2 or more than half.

I have tried to find a number because I wanted to know whether it was totally unreasonable to question hispanics about their citizenship status when millions and millions and millions are here illegally. Don't think it's off the wall to question when 1 in2 are illegal. But they added them all together saying they didn't have an account determining who was here legally and illegally. Hardley call it discriminatory when there's a 50-50 shot they're here illegally.

Originally Posted by crazybird

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Now the question is, did they include illegal aliens in that number?

I understand that the US Census does include illegal aliens.

If the 45.5 million number includes the illegal aliens, then it's honest to say that as many as half of all Hispanics in the US are illegal aliens, since it is estimated that there are 12-30 million illegal aliens in the US. If you use the lower 12 million estimated number, and Pew Hispanic Center 81% number of illegals from Mexico and South America that means that about 9.72 million or a least 1 in every 4.5 Hispanics are illegal aliens and at most, using 81% of the 30 million CAPS estimate then there are 24.3 million illegal Hispanics or 1.1 in every 2 or more than half.

I have tried to find a number because I wanted to know whether it was totally unreasonable to question hispanics about their citizenship status when millions and millions and millions are here illegally. Don't think it's off the wall to question when 1 in2 are illegal. But they added them all together saying they didn't have an account determining who was here legally and illegally. Hardley call it discriminatory when there's a 50-50 shot they're here illegally.

I agree