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Zorro

(15,743 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:44 AM Feb 2013

California's Hispanic population projected to outnumber white in 2014

California's Hispanic population will equal that of whites this year before becoming the state's largest demographic group in 2014 for the first time since statehood in 1850, a government report showed on Thursday.

That change in the most populous U.S. state will make it the third where whites do not comprise a plurality of the population, after New Mexico and Hawaii.

The shift is occurring alongside nationwide growth in the Hispanic population, which grew to 16.7 percent of the total in 2011 from 12.5 percent in 2000, according to U.S. Census figures.

It also comes amid a national debate on immigration that Democratic President Barack Obama waded into this week when he outlined his goals for immigration reform in a speech in Las Vegas.

http://news.yahoo.com/californias-hispanic-population-projected-outnumber-white-2014-030521123.html

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California's Hispanic population projected to outnumber white in 2014 (Original Post) Zorro Feb 2013 OP

What is interesting is that on a mortgage loan application.... Socal31 Feb 2013 #1

That's the case with just about everything in government paperwork I think. n/t ellisonz Feb 2013 #2

Because hispanic is not a race (nor is anything really for that matter, it is all essentially SWTORFanatic Feb 2013 #5

So what editor approved the headline to this story? Socal31 Feb 2013 #6

Yup. Times are changing in the US lunatica Feb 2013 #3

I'm still troubled by the apples and oranges here: hispanics may be of any race, and are often white Recursion Feb 2013 #4

Socal31

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1. What is interesting is that on a mortgage loan application....

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 02:40 AM

Feb 2013

If the loan officer ever sees you face to face, or can make a determination off of your drivers license, they have to check race AND ethnicity.

If under "Race" you check "White", then under ethnicity, you have to check "Hispanic or Latino" or "Not Hispanic or Latino". So they are not mutually exclusive by some definitions.