Roundup: Matza y Capirotada

To better serve up all the news in the Hispanic Voting arena, I’m starting up weekly roundups to cover more new more. Up this week:

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Bloomberg: Young Hispanics Will Pick Up the Tab for Aging Texans

Bloomberg: Young Hispanics Will Pick Up the Tab for Aging Texans

Interesting article by Bloomberg is looking at the demographic trends from the 2010 census results and drawing some interesting conclusions about the future.

Whites who dominated Texas’s population for generations are growing older and more dependent on the earning power and taxes of younger Hispanics, now poised to take over as the state’s largest demographic group.

Of the 25,145,561 people counted in Texas in the 2010 Census, 37.6 percent were Hispanic and 45.3 percent were non- Hispanic whites. Yet Hispanics disproportionately fill the ranks of younger Texans. Hispanics comprise 48.3 percent of Texans under the age of 18, up from 40.5 percent in 2000. The percentage of non-Hispanic whites in the same age group fell to 33.8 percent from 42.6 percent in 2000, according to census data released yesterday.

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Catch the Latino State of the Union

Catch the Latino State of the Union

If you missed the Fourth Annual Latino State of the Union last week, MALDEF has it streaming on Youtube. Representatives from Voto Latino, MALDEF, LULAC and other organizations shared their opinion on how current public policy will affect the Latino community in 2011.

I’ve already posted some of the highlights on Twitter, be sure to follow if you haven’t already.

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Texas Gains Four More Seats In Part Because Latino Population Growth

Texas Gains Four More Seats In Part Because Latino Population Growth

Ana Campoy and Maurice Tamman of the Wall Street Journal comment:

Latinos accounted for 65% of Texas’s population growth over the past decade, and for 95% of the increase among its rapidly expanding under-18 population, numbers likely to amplify the group’s political clout for years to come in the second most-populous state.

Data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Texas, long associated with cowboys, cattle and the wide-open range, became more urban and more Latino from 2000-2010. Non-Hispanic whites ceased being the majority, shrinking to 45.3% of the population from 52.4%.

The proportion of Hispanics in Texas has increased from 2000 to 2010 from 32 percent to 37.6 percent. Image from Wall Street Journal, 2011

Texas is gaining four seats in this new round of reapportionment through a combination of immigration, inter-state migration due to job opportunity and Katrina and live births.

Since a good portion of the growth is coming from Hispanic population growth, we can expect Hispanics become more influential in Texas politics, especially in the counties containing Dallas and Houston which lost White residents as more Hispanics move in the area.

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Hispanics Use Internet As Primary Source of Information According to Google

Hispanics Use Internet As Primary Source of Information According to Google

When it comes to finding information about purchasing decisions, more Hispanics are turning to the Internet. 86% of Hispanics online have broadband and 78% use the Internet as their first source.

According to the head of Google’s U.S. Hispanic Unit Mark Lopez, ”The digital world is the one that influences Latinos most at the time they make buying decisions and it’s something that advertisers should take more into account.”

This information was shared at a large conference held by Google in New York to demonstrate the rising influence of Hispanics online.

Google: Internet main information source for Hispanics [Fox News Latino]

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