By the numbers: More Hispanics are declaring themselves white

[Chris.B]

The researchers found that 2.5 million Americans of Hispanic origin, or approximately 7 percent of the 35 million Americans of Hispanic origin in 2000, changed their race from “some other race” in 2000 to “white” in 2010. An additional 1.3 million people switched in the other direction. A noteworthy but unspecified share of the change came from children who weren’t old enough to fill out a form in 2000, but chose for themselves in 2010.

The data provide new evidence consistent with the theory that Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white. It is particularly significant that the shift toward white identification withstood a decade of debate over immigration and the country’s exploding Hispanic population, which might have been expected to inculcate or reinforce a sense of Hispanic identity, or draw attention to divisions that remain between Hispanics and non-Hispanic white Americans. Research suggests that Hispanics who have experienced discrimination are less likely to identify as white.

The data also call into question whether America is destined to become a so-called minority-majority nation, where whites represent a minority of the nation’s population. Those projections assume that Hispanics aren’t white, but if Hispanics ultimately identify as white Americans, then whites will remain the majority for the foreseeable future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/u...hemselves-white.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Didn't you do the same thing?

 

[Chris.B]

Didn't you do the same thing?

PAWGing wont be as much fun if I were white.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

That's cool, but what will be their reaction when one of them racist white folks call them a wetback, a beaner and call them illegal alien border hoppers. What happens then

 

[Matt504]

those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Didn't you do the same thing?

:damnwhoa:

 

[krackdagawd]

I had one of my old classmates try and convince me DR has a larger % of European ancestry than any other on facebook

 

[Just like bruddas]

I had one of my old classmates try and convince me DR has a larger % of European ancestry than any other on facebook

you have one of those people on facebook I see

 

[King Sun]

I had one of my old classmates try and convince me DR has a larger % of European ancestry than any other on facebook

 

[Tropical Fantasy]

I had one of my old classmates try and convince me DR has a larger % of European ancestry than any other on facebook

bet that nikka was brown skinned too

sometimes I really hate other Dominicans

 

[kermit da hustla]

That's cool, but what will be their reaction when one of them racist white folks call them a wetback, a beaner and call them illegal alien border hoppers. What happens then

they'll be on some

"at least i'm not a ******."

 

[krackdagawd]

you have one of those people on facebook I see

At this point I don't even bother some people have their minds made up.

bet that nikka was brown skinned too

sometimes I really hate other Dominicans

It's a female but yeah dead on

 

[Soundwave]

I no black papi

 

[Fatboi1]

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

and You Kiss the soles of white bodies..