Reconquista

Reconquista

By Staff Writers, teleSUR
Thursday, Jul 9, 2015



While the Latino population might have outgrown their white counterparts in the U.S., they continue to face high rates of poverty and criminalization.

After losing California to the United States in the Invasion of Mexico in 1847, Latinos appear to be claiming back California in a paradoxical shift in history, as they now officially outnumber non-Hispanic whites in the state, the U.S. Census Bureau confirmed Wednesday.

Confirming a long-expected demographic shift, the Census Bureau released late June that as of July 1, 2014, about 14.99 million Latinos live in California, outgrowing the 14.92 million non-Hispanic whites in the state.



State demographers had previously estimated the change to take place in 2013, but slow population growth defied projections.

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