<font size="5"><center>The Mexicans rise again in the Lone Star state</font size></center>
<font size="5"><center>Davy Crockett would weep at the news
Non-whites are now a majority in Texas</font size></center>
The Telegraph
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 13/08/2005)
The southern state was founded after the inspirational defeat suffered by Crockett and his troops at the Alamo. But the latest count of the state's 22.5 million people showed that 11.3 million, or 50.2 per cent, are non-white.
Most of the "minority" population is Hispanic, although there are also about three million blacks. But as the state mulled the news that whites were in the minority for the first time since the early 19th century, Texas newspapers spurned any discussion of the historical irony, preferring to focus on implications for the educational system.
White settlers seized Texas from the Mexicans in a series of engagements from 1836-48. These began with the defeat of a settler force at a mission station called the Alamo in 1836.
Demographers predict that whites will be outnumbered by all other races in the United States by 2050.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...as13.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/13/ixworld.html
<font size="5"><center>Davy Crockett would weep at the news
Non-whites are now a majority in Texas</font size></center>
The Telegraph
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 13/08/2005)
The southern state was founded after the inspirational defeat suffered by Crockett and his troops at the Alamo. But the latest count of the state's 22.5 million people showed that 11.3 million, or 50.2 per cent, are non-white.
Most of the "minority" population is Hispanic, although there are also about three million blacks. But as the state mulled the news that whites were in the minority for the first time since the early 19th century, Texas newspapers spurned any discussion of the historical irony, preferring to focus on implications for the educational system.
White settlers seized Texas from the Mexicans in a series of engagements from 1836-48. These began with the defeat of a settler force at a mission station called the Alamo in 1836.
Demographers predict that whites will be outnumbered by all other races in the United States by 2050.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...as13.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/13/ixworld.html