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Based on U.S. Census Bureau data released in February 2011, for the first time in recent history, Texas's non-Hispanic white population is below 50% (45%) and Hispanics grew to 38%. Between 2000 and 2010, the total population growth by 20.6%, but Hispanics and Latin Americans growth by 65%, whereas non-Hispanic whites grew by only 4.2%. [ 52 ]
As of 2020, six states are majority-minority: Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, and Maryland. All of these states saw larger declines in the relative share of their non-Latino white populations between 1990-2020 than the national average of -23.5% with Nevada dropping by -41.7%, California by -39.3% and Texas by -34.5%. [citation ...
In 2010, it was reported by the BBC how "America's two largest states – California and Texas – became 'majority-minority' states (with an overall minority population outnumbering the white majority)" between 1998 and 2004.
The table also excludes all mixed raced/multiracial persons from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category. The information on Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, add up to more than 100% as the racial data for Hispanics was not broken out separately in the 2020 Census.
Across Texas, about 53% of students enrolled in public schools during the 2021-22 school year were Hispanic, state records show. But only about 29% of the state’s teachers were Hispanic.
At the 2010 census, the long-term effects of white flight led to 25.6% of the city population identifying as non-Hispanic white; [7] by 2020, its White American population declined to 23.7%. [6] Areas like Pearland, Missouri City, and Katy have experienced white flight in the 2010s. [6]
Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]
Its legal resident population was 89.5% 'non-Hispanic white' in the 1940s, but by 2020, was 34.7% 'non-Hispanic white'. [35] In 2010, minority children comprised the majority among children in the six states that were already majority-minority, plus the following four: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi. [36]