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    More Hispanics declaring themselves White

    More Hispanics declaring themselves white

    Posted: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 6:00 pm | Updated: 10:19 pm, Wed May 21, 2014.
    By Nate Cohn
    The New York Times

    Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white.

    An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin,” as the census form puts it, changed their race from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, according to research presented at an annual meeting of the Population Association of America and reported by Pew Research.

    The researchers, who have not yet published their findings, compared individual census forms from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. They found that millions of Americans answered the census questions about race and ethnicity differently in 2000 and 2010. The largest shifts were among Americans of Hispanic origin, who are the nation’s fastest growing ethnic group by total numbers.

    Race is an immutable characteristic for many white, black and Asian Americans. It is less clear for Americans of Hispanic origin. The census form asks two questions about race and ethnicity: one about whether individuals are of Hispanic or Latino origin, and another about race. “Hispanics” do not constitute a race, according to the census, and so 37 percent of Hispanics, presumably dissatisfied with options like “white” or “black” selected “some other race.”

    The researchers found that 2.5 million Americans of Hispanic origin, or approximately 7 percent of the 35 million Americans of Hispanic origin in 2000, changed their race from “some other race” in 2000 to “white” in 2010. An additional 1.3 million people switched in the other direction.

    A noteworthy but unspecified share of the change came from children who were not old enough to fill out a form in 2000, but chose for themselves in 2010.

    The data provide new evidence consistent with the theory that Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white.

    It is particularly significant that the shift toward white identification withstood a decade of debate about immigration and the country’s exploding Hispanic population, which might have been expected to inculcate or reinforce a sense of Hispanic identity, or draw attention to divisions that remain between Hispanics and non-Hispanic white Americans. Research suggests that Hispanics who have experienced discrimination are less likely to identify as white.

    The data also call into question whether the United States is destined to become a so-called minority-majority nation, where whites represent a minority of the nation’s population. Those projections assume that Hispanics are not white, but if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.

    White identification is not necessarily a sign that Hispanics consider themselves white. Many or even most might identify their race as “Hispanic” if it were an explicit option. But white identification may still be an indicator of assimilation.

    White identifiers are more likely to be second- and third-generation Hispanics than foreign-born and noncitizen Hispanics. They also have higher levels of education and income. The researchers’ data did not show the country of origin of the families of those people who shifted their identification.

    The results are a strong sign that fears of a unique “Hispanic challenge,” in which Hispanic immigrants might remain as a permanent Spanish-speaking underclass, are overblown.

    In that regard, the census numbers are not new: There is mounting evidence that Hispanics are succeeding in U.S. society at a pace similar to that of prior waves of European immigrants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    The data provide new evidence consistent with the theory that Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white.

    The data also call into question whether the United States is destined to become a so-called minority-majority nation, where whites represent a minority of the nation’s population. Those projections assume that Hispanics are not white, but if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.

    White identifiers are more likely to be second- and third-generation Hispanics than foreign-born and noncitizen Hispanics. They also have higher levels of education and income. The researchers’ data did not show the country of origin of the families of those people who shifted their identification.
    Identifying with being something other than white and needing to be serviced in a foreign language are creations of professional Mexicans and judges who mistakenly believe that they are also philosophers, rather than mere legal experts.
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    There could be a lot of White people in El Paso now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    There could be a lot of White people in El Paso now.
    Re second and third generations being more likely to identify themselves as white, having 'Bamacrats and sell out Repubs trying to flood the U.S.A. with foreigners certainly makes things more difficult. If we can get a sensible immigration policy and implement Universal E-Verify, much of the current nonsense will disappear.

    Jobs and the economy are high on Americans' list of concerns. I'd really like to see us hammer away at implementing Universal E-Verify, to reserve American jobs for Americans.
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