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I thought this might be interesting reading but its obviously offensive to some so mods please delete
I thought this might be interesting reading but its obviously offensive to some so mods please delete
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I take it that NSX Pilot is an old east coast biased white guy!
Jack
lol.....im just posting info im not biased at all.... I hate everyone equally :biggrin:
LOS ANGELES (June 8) -- Five years ago Sam Greengard, born and raised here amid the sprawl of the nation's second-largest metropolitan area, decided to join a counterwave to the flow of new arrivals in a city increasingly defined by immigration.
He moved out.
"I have never regretted it a single day," said Greengard, a freelance writer who moved his family to West Linn, a suburb of Portland, Ore. "The quality of life, for me, it just wasn't there, You couldn't go anywhere without hitting traffic. Everything was crowded. People were edgy and cranky. I just didn't want to be in that kind of environment."
Greengard has plenty of company. A new report by the California Department of Finance says that even as the state's total population increased slightly, the number of white Californians -- like Greengard -- dropped in 2008, continuing a trend that could soon make Hispanics the largest ethnic population group in the state.
The report found that California had a net loss of 105,000 white residents in 2008 through a combination of more deaths than births, and more people leaving the state than moving in. Since 2000, the white population has declined by 518,000, a trend that peaked in the prerecession years of 2006-2007, when real estate prices also peaked and drove working and middle-class families elsewhere in search of homes, said Mary Heim, chief of the finance department's Demographic Research Unit.
But with the recession, migration in general has slowed considerably in the past two years. "Right now, since the bad economy everywhere, people just can't afford to move," Heim said.
According to the report, which includes estimates regardless of legal status, whites accounted for just under 41 percent of California's overall population in 2008, down from 47 percent in 2000. Hispanics accounted for just over 37 percent, up from 33 percent in 2000. Asians grew from 11 percent to 12.4 percent, while African-Americans slipped slightly from 6.5 percent to 5.9 percent, though in total numbers that population increased slightly.
California Population by Ethnic Group
Source: California Department of Finance
Net migration -- those leaving compared with those arriving -- was topped by Hispanics, with an average of 145,000 new residents a year, and Asians, with 87,000 a year. Net migration by whites was a negative -- an average drop of 54,000 per year. And many of the new Hispanic and Asian residents have come in from other countries, continuing California's status as a key destination for immigrants despite the state's high unemployment rate and, even after the real estate crash, high housing costs.
The changes here reflect a nationwide trend toward "minority majority" status for states. While whites remain the majority nationally, they have slid to minority status in California, Texas, New Mexico and Hawaii, as well as the District of Columbia.
How that might change in the coming years is uncertain, demographers say. The U.S. Census Bureau had predicted whites would slip below 50 percent of the national population by 2042, but the global recession has stalled demographic shifts, suggesting that whites will remain above 50 percent of the U.S. population until at least 2050.
While Greengard, the recent Oregon immigrant, says he doesn't regret leaving Los Angeles and California behind, he does miss the diversity.
"There's a lot of culture and arts and restaurants here, too, but it's not quite the same," Greengard said. But then, in the Portland area he can at least get to where he wants to go, compared with his old social life in Los Angeles.
"It was such a hassle getting to things," he said, "I found myself not wanting to go anywhere. If you want to go to something, you had to deal with so much traffic and crowds, it wasn't worth it."
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This article is lame (nothing against OP). This guy being quoted is confusing hating life in a crowded city and trying to negatively correlate that to growing ethnic diversity. From the way it sounds, he would hate California even if it was 100% White.
...We're all immigrate HERE!...
nsx1 <---- Native Californian.
I'm offended...................... ( :biggrin: just kidding )
I'm half asian and half white. I was born in California. . .where do I fit?
I'm half asian and half white. I was born in California. . .where do I fit?