Latinos Will Surpass the 55 Million Mark

So now that we’re 42 states into the 50-state Census roll-out reveal it’s a good time to pause to see where we are and what to expect. Back in the day (it’s only been 5 months but it seems like an eternity) when Carlos Guerra, Sara Inés Calderón, Gilberto Ocañas and I sat for coffee at the Foundry in San Antonio to plot News Taco we were convinced that the US Census was going to be a startling revelation. We wagered that the count would show at least 55 million Latinos in the United States – far more than most estimates had predicted. It turns out there’s some good ju-ju in the Foundry coffee because our aim was dead-on

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Posted by Sylvia Lopez