Ethnic Diversity on the Rise: Census 2010
Bad news for all those immigrant haters and their hater laws.
The rapidly growing Hispanic population is changing the demographic—and electoral—landscape of a great many states, including many battleground states. Hispanics now account for nearly half of the population in New Mexico, more than one-third in Texas and California, and more than one-quarter in Arizona and Nevada. The Hispanic population more than doubled in size over the past decade in South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, Maryland, Mississippi, and South Dakota. In six states—Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island—the population would not have increased at all if not for the growing number of Hispanics.