California Minority Populations Now The Majority

This story comes courtesy of California Watch.

By Agustin Armendariz

In all but eight of California's 26 metropolitan areas, minorities make up more than half the population.

A new study from the Brookings Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C., analyzed the demographic makeup of the nation's 100 largest metro areas and found minorities accounting for almost the entire growth in those areas since 2000:

Non-whites and Hispanics accounted for 98 percent of population growth in large metro areas from 2000 to 2010. Forty-two of the 100 largest metro areas lost white population, and 22 now have "majority minority" populations. Smaller metro areas and areas outside of metropolitan regions, by contrast, remain overwhelmingly white.

Eleven of California's 26 metro areas are among the largest 100 in the nation, and in all except the
Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville metro area, whites account for less than 50 percent of the population.

In 2000, minorities made up more than half the population in 14 major metro areas nationwide, and only five in 1990, according to the study.

The study calculated the share of the population represented by white residents from the 1990 Census through the 2010 count. The results for the 11 California metros that are part of the study are in the table below. The map following it shows all 26 California metro areas tracked during the last census. More darkly shaded areas indicate that minorities make up more than 50 percent of the population as of the 2010 Census.

To access an interactive map with this data, please click here.

Agustin Armendariz is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch stories here.

Comments

[erictruth]

09:35 PM on 09/04/2011

Dear INS, please help this country get over this terrible disease called illegal aliens!!!!!

[ms schatzi]

10:05 AM on 09/06/2011

Perhaps they could send some over to Germany, we are in desperate need of some taco stands on the autobahn.

[erictruth]

09:20 PM on 09/04/2011

Who keeps removing my comments? He said way worse things than me and he didn't get removed!

[ObamAtomic]

09:21 PM on 09/04/2011

Estas llorando?

[erictruth]

09:23 PM on 09/04/2011

Speak english if you expect anyone to take you seriously

[erictruth]

09:25 PM on 09/04/2011

You reporting my comments? looks like you're the cry baby!

[ObamAtomic]

08:10 PM on 09/04/2011

erictruth-Atomic Sock Puppet.

Bolsudos Americanos!

[Atomic Sock Puppet]

08:47 PM on 09/04/2011

If I am the bagg-er, that would make you the baggeee. LOL

[ObamAtomic]

08:51 PM on 09/04/2011

Usted es una marioneta y mamon!

[erictruth]

06:02 PM on 09/04/2011

Gee, I wonder how many of these minorities are legel???? hmmm?

[ObamAtomic]

07:26 PM on 09/04/2011

Speak American ,Tbag! I mean English!

[Atomic Sock Puppet]

07:49 PM on 09/04/2011

Isn't it time to read "World of Gor?"

[erictruth]

07:54 PM on 09/04/2011

American is English otherwise spanish would of been a main course in school opposed to an elective

[AntonioSaucedo]

03:59 PM on 09/03/2011

This country's history has been about change. Sometimes drastic change. And we'll keep on changing. The US will certainly find a way to make it work. It won't be easy because nothing ever is. But at the end of the day it can only make this country stronger. Plus, it's not like we have any other choice.

[red skull]

10:14 PM on 09/03/2011

"The US will certainly find a way to make it work."

----

Not without educated people.

[Dick Stone]

02:30 AM on 09/03/2011

The anglos in California should now demand an affirmative action program, and make the majority move to the back of the line on scholarships, college entrance, jobs etc., and the new majority should have to pay for it all, like the former majority had to.

[Samuel Huntington]

12:16 AM on 09/03/2011

I cant wait for the system of Mordida's to be instituted and when the Mexican Drug Cartels take over, so we start having heads in duffle bags showing up at elementary schoolyards like in TJ, Sinaloa, and Rosarita Beach.

But today was a good start with the passage of a bill to provide Cal Grants (free money) Subsidized Loans and other aid to illegal aliens and their children. The Ca Democrat party has sold you and your kids out, for the votes of illegal aliens once amnesty comes.

If you are an African American, why do you vote Democrat. Your kids have the highest unemployment rate in the nation of any race. Now your kids will need to compete with illegals to get into college and get financial aid. You got played for a sucker by the Democrats, like the rest of us, but even worse.

[Frank Bourne]

07:42 PM on 09/02/2011

Whites are being "ethnically cleansed" out of California.

[mikey09]

08:45 PM on 09/02/2011

The Daily Beast had a great article the other day...said basically California voters are voting with their feet....they are moving out of California, but I guess the new majority will be stuck paying the high property tax rates.....:-)

[Samuel Huntington]

12:24 AM on 09/03/2011

sorry the ones that will be left someday will not be taxpayers, they will be tax takers.

Example the IRS announced this week that 75% of those that file returns with a Taxpayer ID # intended to be used by mainly illegals (not a valid SSN #) claim Earned Income Credits and receive thousands in refunds for Earned Income Credits and Additional Earned Income Credits. Essentially these taxpayers file to receive large refunds.

What makes it worse is those that file with this type of number are not eligible to claim EICs. But the IRS is not given the authority by Congress to address the loss of billions in this program.

Note: in examination a huge percentage of EICs are disallowed, as illegals and other Latino immigrants claim EICs on children in foreign countries due to the poor practices of formas cortas preparers and greed to get free money.

[CrossfitGal]

05:30 PM on 09/02/2011

I don't really care if minorities are the majority in CA but what I do care about is what is happening to the streets of California; especially Los Angeles. I can't understand way anyone, legal or illegal, would want to live in the filth that is becoming our city. If people are coming here for a better way of life then why revert the city to the place they came from? At some point my anger turned to sadness; it's a hopeless feeling because politicians in their quest to obtain votes....look the other way, lock themselves in expensive communities when they go home and ignore the reality of the city.

[RobietheCat]

09:02 PM on 09/02/2011

Fanned.

I see it the same way. LA is just becoming Tijuana north.

I avoid it as much as possible.

[ms schatzi]

04:34 PM on 09/04/2011

poor people have poor ways

[Greg34]

04:23 PM on 09/02/2011

Make the illegal Mexicans go home.

[sylvia wadlington]

03:09 PM on 09/02/2011

I'm trying to imagine an ethnic Chinese businessman speaking Spanish with bits of Cali slang thrown in so everyone will know he's tuned in and hip.

[Assumed Name]

03:43 PM on 09/02/2011

*smooch*

http://www.soompi.com/news/top-ten-greatest-asian-american-rappers-of-all-time

[BlairCase]

01:31 PM on 09/02/2011

I lived for more than 25 years in a large city (El Paso) in which Hispanic Americans make up nearly 80 percent of the population. It works pretty much like U.S. cities with majority Hispanic populations. El Paso has the same divisions between rich and poor neighborhoods you see in more diverse cities. The only difference is that Hispanics are the majority in every neighborhood and every profession.

[CaptRuby]

02:08 PM on 09/02/2011

Miami is much the same.

[Max is Back]

05:02 PM on 09/02/2011

Which is precisely why the Tea Party feels threatened by it and insults the people and customs of the place. There was a meeting of CONservative commentators or professional bag gers in Palm Beach and all they could do was denigrate Miami every chance they got and call it a third world ghetto and the like. The only reason I can come up with for their fascinating display of xenophobia is that the majority in Miami is Latin and not Anglo since, aside from that, Miami is pretty similar to Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach...

[mikey09]

08:47 PM on 09/02/2011

Maybe your right but remember most of those complaining are snow birds....former New Yorkers...etc.

[BlairCase]

11:47 AM on 09/02/2011

Although they can be of any race, most Hispanic/Latino Americans self-identifiy as "white." The chart should reference "non-Hispanic White" rather than "White" population share. In Texas, the non-Hispanic whites are generally referred as "Anglos."

[Ari Sedona]

10:18 AM on 09/02/2011

Third world is consuming CA. It's spreading fast!!! Thank god AZ is putting the plug where it belongs.

[Assumed Name]

03:44 PM on 09/02/2011

(...in your nether region?)

[red skull]

02:13 AM on 09/03/2011

You would know this? Get outta there.

[Max is Back]

08:19 AM on 09/02/2011

This probably explains why white supremacist organizations like the T Bag gers are a non issue out there. It's nice to see a place that decides elections based on real issues and not on the whims of low information bag gers brainwashed by fauxnews and right wing hate radio...

[BuckCarson]

08:52 AM on 09/02/2011

Max - there's plenty of educated/diverse people in the TB'er world. You have been a victim of media and politicians playing you.

Where I live in upstate NY we have a black MD in Internal Medicine, a mexican driveway installer, a cuban restaurant owner. Also a physicist, engineer, mathematician and landlord. Lots small business owners as well.

Try coming out to a gathering. You'll immediately see how your people are using you.

[Max is Back]

09:03 AM on 09/02/2011

It's amazing how a national media campaign can recycle the John Birch Society into something that pretends to be populist while furthering the Koch Brothers economic interest at the expense of the poor brainwashed barkers who show up at those things and trade Glenn Beck paraphernalia...

[mikey09]

08:50 PM on 09/02/2011

Oh...there are plenty of "supremacist" groups in CA....remember this is the state that voted to outlaw gay marriage, strip illegals of all benefits, etc....only reason not now laws are court battles....but Californians voted.