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NATION, Page 43American NotesPOPULATIONHispanics on The Rise
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.
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.