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- Whites will cease to be the majority in California next
year, a portent for the future of America, demographers said yesterday.
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- Figures gathered by the California Department of Finance
indicate that the proportion of the population counted as white - non-Hispanic
people of European or Middle Eastern origin - will fall below 50 per cent
in the next 12 months.
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- It will make California the only mainland state to have
a white minority. Hawaii has a majority of Asians and Polynesians. With
Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois all becoming racially mixed at a
rapid rate, it is thought that America will lose its majority of white
people by about 2070 at current rates.
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- The prospect of an America turning more and more towards
its cousins in the south or the Pacific rather than to Europe is likely
to worry politicians in Britain.
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- Thirty years ago, eight out of 10 Californians were white.
There has been a huge influx of immigrants, mostly from Mexico and the
rest of Latin America. A further five million immigrants - two million
of them arriving illegally - are thought to have settled in the state since
1980.
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- In the past 30 years, the proportion of Hispanics has
risen to about 32 per cent of the current population of 34 million. Sometime
around 2040, when whites will make up less than a third of California's
projected 52 million people, Hispanics are projected to form a majority.
California is also home to huge immigrant communities from other countries.
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- Los Angeles hosts the largest communities of Koreans
and Iranians outside their native lands. In Glendale, once an almost exclusively
white suburb, a gang war is being fought by Hispanic and Armenian youths.
Governor Gray Davis said: "A more diverse population creates some
potential discomforts and even potential conflicts but it also brings great
strengths."
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- In pre-Civil War times, South Carolina had a black majority,
and a mix of Hispanics and American Indians have, in the past, made whites
in a minority in New Mexico.
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