In the new two thousand Census, they show a increase of over
sixty percent Hispanics in the United States. Hispanics are now
the largest minority group in the U.S., over taking blacks which
lead by nine million in the nineteen ninety records. The new
figures are accounted for by large waves of new legal and illegal
immigrants, and the improved skills by census. The rise of
Hispanics was long anticipated by demographers, but it was
reported by census by year two thousand five they would have.
Hispanics which mostly migrated to the southwest,
California, Florida and New York have been relocating. Now new
immigrants are moving into low-paying, labor intensive
industries. Large numbers of Hispanics are being found in North
Carolina, Georgia and Iowa, Which a few years ago were almost
nonexistent. They are now dominating the construction and
landscaping trades in Atlanta and Memphis.
In the census you are reacquired to check off the box in
which ethnicity you fall under. In many cases kids under the age
of eighteen that fall under other categories than black tend to
check off black. This and the two percent of blacks over the age
of fifty mark off other boxes than black. Younger kids are
starting to look into there past ancestry, and are looking past
there parents. Mr. Passel a demographer says that even this is
providing a better picture of the way blacks view themselves but
it might hamper the way other people view blacks.
In the nineteen nineties census two point three million
people were added, based on a statistical portrait of their
neighborhood. In the new two thousand census the two point three
jumped to a five point seven million people who could not be
identified. John Thompson, director of the two thousand
Decennical census does not know why this happened, and was not
informed of it. He is still wondering, and anxious to find out
why three times as many people wer...