Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Latinos now in the majority in California

Javier Panzar writes in the L.A. Times,
California is now the first large state and the third overall — after Hawaii and New Mexico — without a white plurality, according to state officials.

The official confirmation had to wait until new population figures were released by the Census Bureau this summer. The new tally, released in late June, shows that as of July 1, 2014, about 14.99 million Latinos live in California, edging out the 14.92 million whites in the state.
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