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- <text id=89TT2784>
- <title>
- Oct. 23, 1989: American Notes:Population
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 23, 1989 Is Government Dead?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 43
- American Notes
- POPULATION
- Hispanics on The Rise
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As census takers prepare for the 1990 population count, which
- could sharply shift the relative clout of states in the House of
- Representatives and force the redistribution of countless federal
- aid programs, one trend is already evident: as a group, Hispanics
- have grown five times as fast as the rest of the U.S. population
- since 1980. Their number has leaped 39% and is now 20.1 million,
- 8.2% of the U.S. total. The figures, released last week, came from
- a Census Bureau survey conducted in March, which made no attempt
- to distinguish between legal and illegal residents.
- </p>
- <p> The influx of Hispanics, mostly from Mexico, is concentrated
- in California (which has 34%), Texas (21%), New York (10%) and
- Florida (8%). Besides holding a potentially pivotal vote in close
- elections in those states, Hispanics are disproportionately young
- and thus constitute a large share of students in many school
- systems. At this rate, Hispanics could overtake blacks (30 million)
- as the largest U.S. minority by 2015.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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