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As recently as 1950, the census counted fewer than 4 million residents on the U.S. mainland who would today fall under the category Hispanic, the majority of Mexican descent. Last year there were an estimated 17.6 million, with roughly 60% tracing their ancestry to Mexico and the rest to Puerto...
< Shortly after World War II, three-quarters of all Hispanics on the U.S. mainland lived in Texas or California. As of 1980, those two states still accounted for 51% of the total Hispanic population. But large numbers have also settled in Arizona (16% Hispanic) and New Mexico (36%) and in...
cities as Denver (19%) and Hartford, Conn. (20%). In South Florida, nearly a million Hispanics (78% Cuban) have spread so rapidly beyond Miami (64% Hispanic) that they sometimes refer to the entire 25-mile-or-so stretch from Miami to the Everglades as Calle Ocho (Eighth Street), after the main...
Moreover, American Hispanics are a predominantly young (median age: 23) and highly fertile population. Yankelovich found that 54% of all Hispanic households consist of four or more people, vs. only 28% of all U.S. families. They keep coming too in such numbers that even if all illegal immigration could be...
Some analysts think that Hispanic Americans by the year 2000 will total 30 million to 35 million, or 11% to 12% of all U.S. residents, vs. 6.4% in 1980. If so, they would constitute the largest American minority, outnumbering blacks and, indeed, people of English, Irish, German, Italian or any...