Texas, U.S. Must Adjust To New Latino Majority

There is no longer an ethnic majority in Texas — or anywhere — at least not for very long. Recent Census figures show that in Texas, Latinos are 37.6% of the population and Anglos are about 45%. We know that, in the next 10 years, there’s a moment coming wherein these two percentages will slide past each other: “Hello, goodbye. Hola, adiós.”

It is a game changer in Texas, which serves as a symbol for how we can conceive of the rest of the country. There’s no turning back. Who knows what the future brings, no one can predict it, but it is a game changer, that is for sure. This is a game changer the same way, in the 1820s in Texas, whites became the largest ethnic group in Texas, to affect the history of that state for many generations to come.

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[posted by Sylvia Lopez]