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A Bright Future To New Generation Of Hispanics In The United States

A Bright Future For Hispanics
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Deputy Editor HuffPost Latino Voices & Voces

Families shop in downtown Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Surging Latino and Asian populations accounted for virtually all of Californias population growth over the last decade, new census data showed on Tuesday. In the decade spanning 2000 and 2010, Latinos grew by 28 percent to 14 million in the nations most populous state, while Asians grew even faster, by 31 percent, to reach 4.8 million. In contrast, non-Hispanic whites decreased by 5 percent and the states African-American population dipped by 1 percent. Over the decade, Californias population grew only 10 percent to 37.3 million, ranking just 20th nationally and lagging behind other western states such as Nevada and Arizona. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)
Families shop in downtown Santa Ana, Calif. on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Surging Latino and Asian populations accounted for virtually all of Californias population growth over the last decade, new census data showed on Tuesday. In the decade spanning 2000 and 2010, Latinos grew by 28 percent to 14 million in the nations most populous state, while Asians grew even faster, by 31 percent, to reach 4.8 million. In contrast, non-Hispanic whites decreased by 5 percent and the states African-American population dipped by 1 percent. Over the decade, Californias population grew only 10 percent to 37.3 million, ranking just 20th nationally and lagging behind other western states such as Nevada and Arizona. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)

A little more than one-third of the adult children of immigrants in this country are Hispanics, and it turns out that like previous generations of immigrants, they are generally doing well. That’s good news, and further evidence that the descendants of millions of undocumented immigrants, currently in the cross hairs of the national debate over immigration reform, will assimilate and become productive citizens.

A new study by the Pew Research Center, examining census data for millions of second-generation immigrants, throws cold water on suggestions that Hispanics are somehow different from past immigrant communities — a permanent underclass in the making, wedded to government handouts.

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