"Time keeps on slipping into the future." -- Fly Like an Eagle, The Steve Miller Band
What a difference a decade makes. A new online tool from the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York visualizes the changes in demography that have occurred between the 2000 and 2010 censuses in local communities situated in fifteen of the country's largest urban areas: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.
The tool is simple to use, as described by the folks behind the site. The racial and ethnic composition of census blocks -- which are about the size of city blocks in urban areas -- are displayed by different colors. There are three ways to view the maps. My favorite employs a divider in the center of the screen which separates a view created from 2000 census data with a view from the 2010 data. Dragging the mouse moves the map across the divider and reveals a decade of population change.
When I use the tool to visualize the Washington D.C. area and my home county of Fairfax, Virginia; I see patterns that are playing out in a similar manner as other urban areas. Latinos and Asians -- who are experiencing population growth -- are forming new communities. In Northern Virginia, new Latino communities are emerging in Manassas and Woodbridge and new Asian communities near Fair Lakes and Reston.
Countervailing the Latino and Asian growth trends are decreasing concentrations of African-American in their communities. Demographers that I have spoken with attribute this to two factors: gentrification and children seeking job and housing opportunities outside their neighborhoods when they come of age.
As African-Americans disperse into the suburbs and Latinos and Asians move in, the percentage of Whites is decreasing throughout the entirety of Fairfax County. This is likely a contributing factor to how the region has been drifting from Red to Blue politically in recent elections, which has profound political implications for the region, the state, and the country.
The "Real Virginia" -- as George Allen infamously described it -- is giving way to the Real America, a racial and ethnic melting pot where no one race or ethnicity dominates. The Census Bureau projects by 2050, Whites -- who currently are about two-thirds of the population -- will constitute the slimmest majority in the country as a whole. So, over the next decade, expect the face of the nation to continue to evolve in a similar direction.
Try out the tool. I'm sure that you will be fascinated -- and perhaps surprised -- at how your favorite urban area is changing.
Now, wasn't that simple.
People think that a white male business person has it made, not correct. The only questions that needs to be on any application when seeking help for the SBA iare you a US Citizen? and that should be a good thing not bad.
Jack
Your entire story is a lie.
My story is a fact that I will never forget
I was required to fill out application within the SBA office located in the Federal Building in my area. Then I met the SBA peson who was the person that laughed at me. You just don't know what you are talking about.
Jack
While some old wave of immigrants congregated in their own communities in cities-Chinatown's for example, it added to our understanding of their cultures. That tenacity to melt in and become part of America is missing in the new immigrants. They have succeeded in our voting ballots printed in different languages. The Hispanic population has succeeded in having telephone systems, "press one for English, press two for Spanish." There are whole towns in the United States where you swear you've crossed the border into Mexico. The problem is not their race, but their refusal to become a part of mainstream America. If besides their languages, they bring the same corruption to government they left behind, America will be left in the dust bin of history. Even now, kid's are being taught a far different version of America's history. The ones doing the teaching are dividing us as a nation. History cannot be changed based on someone's prejudice.
It was different when europeans came here, they had to learn english, back then you were beaten
for less. Do you know how long it takes to learn a new language?
As far as becoming part of mainstream america. Who defines what mainstream america is?
What is mainstream america, is your view of it the right one, what mainstream in florida my be compleatly different in Omaha.
Yes corruption of Goverment, really, we just had a president lie about WMD's and base on those lie's invaded a country kill over 100,000 of there people most of them innocent, at a great financial lost and lost lives. By the way how can they bring corruption to goverment if they are not a part of it, hell according to you they don't speak the language, so please tell me how did they get elected to corrupt the gov.
America is going to change, leave the past behind and become part of the process that moving forward. History will change from His Story to our story.
You have only to look at Mexico's government and those in some Asian countries and the Middle East to understand the sort of corruption I'm speaking of. They have held the people down for centuries-with dictatorships and tyrants. While we never should have invaded Iraq, Iraq is glad to be rid of one of the worst tyrants in history, along with his evil sons.
America and its immigrants from all over the world showed the world that different races and cultures can live together in peace by becoming one nation out of many. That is the history that is changing because the new immigrants have no desire to leave the old ways behind and embrace and adopt their new country, as did past immigrants. Asians are accomplishing more because they have adapted to America much better than Latinos whose refusal to adapt is costing their children an education and success.
That *&^% Bush is to blame for all the citizen who don't understand or get the concept of the term/word "mainstream", in English or any other language!
We all want to move on, I personally would like it if we were moving in the right direction...
I'm just sayin'.
That means so called "minorities" (all of them total) will be the majority.
Some people (unnamed) are NOT going to get "their" country back.
What they will get is a bigger melting pot (of mixed Americans).
Yes, it is happening now.
Some refuse to see or admit it.