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Majority of Texas' population growth is Hispanic

By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
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HOUSTON — Two of every three new Texas residents in the past decade was Hispanic, signaling an explosive growth in the state's Latino population, Census data released Thursday show.

The nation's second most populous state added 4.3 million residents between 2000 and 2010, growing to more than 25 million residents, a 20.6% jump, the data show. Hispanics accounted for 65% of that growth, while non-Hispanic whites experienced the smallest increase of any group, just 4.2%.

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Houston remains Texas' largest city, growing 7.5% in the past decade to 2.1 million residents, followed by San Antonio (1.3 million) and Dallas (1.2 million).

The growing numbers of Texas Hispanics mirrors what's happening across the USA, says Steve Murdock, a former Census Bureau director and now a Rice University sociology professor. For the first time in recent history, Texas' white population dropped below 50%, dipping to 45%, the data show. Hispanics now make up about 38%.

"You're seeing a huge shift from being plurality Anglo to plurality Hispanic," he says. "The Texas of today is the U.S. of tomorrow."

Texas's population boost will add four seats to the state's 32 already in the U.S. House of Representatives. How the congressional and state legislative districts are redrawn to reflect the Census numbers is expected to unleash heated debate in the coming months, analysts and state leaders say.

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"If it wasn't for the growth of Latinos the last decade, there wouldn't be growth to talk about," says state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, a Democrat from San Antonio and chairman of the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus. "We cannot lose sight of the fact that there needs to be some representation for minorities."

Minority groups grew the most in and around Texan urban centers such as Houston and San Antonio. In Harris County, where Houston is located, the Latino population grew nearly 50% to 1.67 million and Asian Texans grew by 44% to 250,000. The number of whites in Harris County dropped from 1.4 million to 1.35 million — a 6% decline.

"The demographics are there and there's no going back," says Laura Murillo, president of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "We're hoping the Census data give us the political and economic clout that Hispanics clearly deserve."

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This tells me that Texas has been taken over by illegals . Deport them back to their own countries,.

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