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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (Mexico...
...biggest political news of the 2000 Census was that Hispanics--more than half of them tracing their roots to Mexico--have become the largest minority group in the U.S., surpassing African Americans at least six years sooner than expected. Where that's happening is turning out to be as surprising as how fast. Of the congressional districts that saw the biggest increases in their Latino populations over the past decade, not a single one is in a state along the Mexican border. Rural areas saw huge growth in Hispanic populations, but so did cities and suburbs...
...When the Census released its latest snapshot of the American family last week, some pundits described the picture as "alarming" and "disturbing," not the kind you'd want to paste into your favorite album. The American family is changing--shifting away from a traditional nuclear structure toward a variety of reconfigurations, and a big reason is a 25% increase since 1990 in the number of single mothers raising children. (The number of single fathers raising children is also up--a whopping 62%--although they are still vastly outnumbered by single mothers.) And for the first time, the number of traditional...
...played a part in the disturbing statistics. When my daughter and I sat down at the kitchen table last year to fill out the Census form, we reported as one of the 7.2% of American households headed by a single mother. I've been a single mother for so long that I've stopped thinking about it, but now that the numbers are out, the backlash has begun. We are dysfunctional. Our home is broken. We are at risk and vulnerable. America is going to hell in a handbasket, and we are holding the basket--confounding the eternal American happy...
...talk about "family values," they're not talking about us. But come by on Sunday nights and take a look at our rickety family--the one pieced together from leftovers--and it will seem as healthy, happy and "normal" as any in the "married with children" column in the Census...