Texas demographer: 'It's basically over for Anglos'
Looking at population projections for Texas, demographer Steve Murdock concludes: "It's basically over for Anglos."
Two of every three Texas children are now non-Anglo and the trend line will become even more pronounced in the future, said Murdock, former U.S. Census Bureau director and now director of the Hobby Center for the Study of Texas at Rice University.
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Steve Murdock
Today's Texas population can be divided into two groups, he said. One is an old and aging Anglo and the other is young and minority. Between 2000 and 2040, the state's public school enrollment will see a 15 percent decline in Anglo children while Hispanic children will make up a 213 percent increase, he said.
The state's largest county - Harris - will shed Anglos throughout the coming decades. By 2040, Harris County will have about 516, 000 fewer Anglos than lived in the Houston area in 2000, while the number of Hispanics will increase by 2.5 million during the same period, Murdock said. The projection assumes a net migration rate equal to one-half of 1990-2000.
Most of the state's population growth is natural, Murdock told the House Mexican American Legislative Caucus today. About 22 percent of the growth comes from people moving to Texas from other states.
About 6 percent of the state's population is not documented, he said.
B y 2040, only 20 percent of the state's public school enrollment will be Anglo, he said. Last year, non-Hispanic white children made up 33.3 percent of the state's 4.8 million public school enrollment.
Of the state's 254 counties, 79 recorded declining population during the past 20 years. All are rural. An additional 30 Texas counties, he said, would have also lost population had they not experienced Hispanic growth.
The state's future looks bleak assuming the current trend line does not change because education and income levels for Hispanics lag considerably behind Anglos, he said.
Unless the trend line changes, 30 percent of the state's labor force will not have even a high school diploma by 2040, he said. And the average household income will be about $6,500 lower than it was in 2000. That figure is not inflation adjusted so it will be worse than what it sounds.
"It's a terrible situation that you are in. I am worried," Murdock said.
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Texas Mexico
Texas Mexico
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Texas Mexico
Yet another reason to let (make) Texas go back to being the Lone Star Republic ....
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
Re: Texas Mexico
Just Texas? Shoot, we're taking over the whole Southwest.
Via Mexico, mañana el mundo!
Via Mexico, mañana el mundo!
Re: Texas Mexico
Dare I ask the question?
What's wrong with that?
The Hispanic population is not an infestation, it's a part of the whole - hopefully a productive, vibrant, valuable part.
What's wrong with that?
The Hispanic population is not an infestation, it's a part of the whole - hopefully a productive, vibrant, valuable part.
Re: Texas Mexico
Hispanic population? Sure.
People who overtly claim not to recognize the border between the US and Mexico, who make no bones about calling the influx of Mexican (and, to a lesser degree, other Latin American) immigrants the reconquista, and who refuse to learn English, demanding instead that the US "recognize" Spanish as an official language? Not so much.
People who overtly claim not to recognize the border between the US and Mexico, who make no bones about calling the influx of Mexican (and, to a lesser degree, other Latin American) immigrants the reconquista, and who refuse to learn English, demanding instead that the US "recognize" Spanish as an official language? Not so much.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
Re: Texas Mexico
Remember in the '60's when Senator Hayakawa of Hawaii proposed a Constitutional Amendment declaring English as our national language?
What an idiot, right?
What an idiot, right?
Re: Texas Mexico
Idiot? No. But no need for it. If you want to speak english, speak it, even to those who don't understand it--just speak louder and they will eventually understand.
Re: Texas Mexico
Those who are unwilling to speak/read/write English will be forever at the low end of the economic ladder.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Texas Mexico
Oh boy we'll be able to revive an old name----Texico...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
Re: Texas Mexico
How ironic that it is easier to find a clerk who speaks fluent English in a store in Berlin than it is in some stores in the American Southwest.
Re: Texas Mexico
Pues Si, all that talk of 'speak English or leave', comes form those who live outside the southwest....
We're your neighbor and your labor!
We're your neighbor and your labor!
Re: Texas Mexico
Really? And here I thought that the people of Arizona and California had voted to make English their States' official language. (Regardless of whether those enactments survived court challenges or not, they reflected the will of substantial majorities.)
Silly me. How could I not have known that majorities of voters in Arizona and California are actually people "who live outside the southwest"? Silly, silly me.
Silly me. How could I not have known that majorities of voters in Arizona and California are actually people "who live outside the southwest"? Silly, silly me.
Reason is valuable only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.
Re: Texas Mexico
Yup, silly not to notice that the voters of the Southwest; Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. approved the bi-lingual street signage, voter's ballets and immigrants rights, etc. predominately with Hispanics in mind.
The New Mexican state song is bi-lingual.
The New Mexican state song is bi-lingual.
So, in the SW it's not so much 'speak English or leave', but 'speak Spanish and stay'.In total, there were 35,468,501 people in the United States who speak Spanish as their primary language at home, including 3.5 million in the territory of Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the primary language.[6] Over half of the country's Spanish speakers reside in California, Texas, and Florida alone
The influx of many Spanish-speaking immigrants to the U.S. has increased the number of Spanish-speakers in the country, resultantly they are majorities and large minorities in many political districts, especially in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, the U.S. states bordering Mexico.
Wiki-
Re: Texas Mexico
Yes, by all means.
Stay.
Don't bother to learn to speak/read/write English.
Stay.
Become low-skilled and low-paid peons.
The corpocracy thanks you!
Stay.
Don't bother to learn to speak/read/write English.
Stay.
Become low-skilled and low-paid peons.
The corpocracy thanks you!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Texas Mexico
'Cha for the betterment of yer children, pls do! You won't get this opportunity in Mexico.
Re: Texas Mexico
Why is that?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Texas Mexico
No job opportunities/corruption
Poverty in Mexico - Fact Sheet
Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states.
Poverty in Mexico - Fact Sheet
Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states.