[CH] LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
Dave Anderson (chilehead@tough-love.com)
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:55:38 -0800
I think it's a matter of which statistics you decide to use. We are
seriously considering ditching the winters in Northern Nevada and are
currently focusing on Las Cruces, New Mexico. Here's a couple of Las
Cruces Statistics:
Las Cruces Public Schools (Enrollment 23,100)
Hispanic: 68.3%, Anglo 27.5%, African-American 2.3%, Asian 1.0%,
Native American 1.0%. That adds up to 100.1% but I won't be
enrolling:-)
New Mexico State University Main Campus (Enrollment 16248)
Hispanic 41.7, Anglo 51.4, African American 2.7%, Asian 1.3%, Native
American 2.9%.
Pretty deversified, I'd say.
Dave
TLCC
> /me exits lurk-mode
>
> Actually....
>
> The U.S. Census Bureau reports that Texas has now joined Hawaii, New Mexico
> and California as "majority-minority" state, in which the combined
> population of minorities exceeds the majority population.
>
> According to July 1, 2004, population estimates, Texas had a minority
> population of 11.3 million, comprising 50.2 percent of its total population
> of 22.5 million. In comparison, 77 percent of Hawaii's population was
> minority. In New Mexico and California, the proportions were 57 percent and
> 56 percent, respectively, while the District of Columbia was 70 percent
> minority.
>
> The Census Bureau considers the minority population to include all people
> except non-Hispanic single-race whites.
>
> Five states - Maryland, Mississippi, Georgia, New York and Arizona - are
> next in line with minority populations of about 40 percent.
>
> http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/censusandstatistics/a/minmajpop.htm/
>
> /me re-enters lurk-mode
>
> Richard Ewing