Thread: Mexicans Rise Again In The Lone Star State

Mexicans Rise Again In
The Lone Star State
By Francis Harris in Washington
The Telegraph - UK
8-13-5


Davy Crockett would weep at the news. Non-whites are now a majority in Texas.

The southern state was founded after the inspirational defeat suffered by Crockett and his troops at the Alamo. But the latest count of the state's 22.5 million people showed that 11.3 million, or 50.2 per cent, are non-white.

Most of the "minority" population is Hispanic, although there are also about three million blacks. But as the state mulled the news that whites were in the minority for the first time since the early 19th century, Texas newspapers spurned any discussion of the historical irony, preferring to focus on implications for the educational system.

White settlers seized Texas from the Mexicans in a series of engagements from 1836-48. These began with the defeat of a settler force at a mission station called the Alamo in 1836.

Demographers predict that whites will be outnumbered by all other races in the United States by 2050.

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Defenders of the Alamo. America was well represented in Texas then as it will be again.

http://www.alamodescendants.org/alamo_defenders.htm

Once again an editorialist misses the fact that in 1838 most of the population and most of the territory in Texas was not held by the Mexicans it was Indian. The Mexicans brought in the Americans to help them gain and hold territory from Indians like the Comanches. As for all those population projections going forward. The projections assume that the immigration and growth rates remain the same. A look back shows the same sort of mistake made projecting previous populations. The growth curve of both the Italians and the Irish dropped off so will the Mexican.

maybe it should be "illegal aliens" are the majority --- "citizens" are the minority

Defenders of the Alamo. America was well represented in Texas then as it will be again.

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Once again an editorialist misses the fact that in 1838 most of the population and most of the territory in Texas was not held by the Mexicans it was Indian. The Mexicans brought in the Americans to help them gain and hold territory from Indians like the Comanches. As for all those population projections going forward. The projections assume that the immigration and growth rates remain the same.

I believe this is true, Richard. When we stop illegal immigration, population demographics will change again!!