This is a huge blow to La Raza, the Progressives and the Nativists who lament the death of White America. The Census in 2010 clarified that Hispanic is not a race, but an ethnicity. The result is that the majority of Latinos call themselves White. When White Hispanics are added to Non Hispanic Whites, the White share of the population stands at 72%.
More Hispanics are listing their race as white, according to the U.S. Census.
The shift is due to recent census changes that emphasize “Hispanic” as an ethnicity, not a race. While the U.S. government first made this distinction in 1980, many Latinos continued to use the “some other race” box to establish a Hispanic identity.
In a switch, the 2010 census forms specifically instructed Latinos that Hispanic origins are not races and to select a recognized category such as white or black.
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“The white population has become more diverse as evidenced by the growth of the Hispanic white population and the multiple-race white population,” including black-white and white-Asian people, according to the 2010 census analysis released Thursday.
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The definition of white has always been expansive,” he said. “I could see the census in 2030 or 2040 dropping the differentiation between Hispanics and whites.”
Roderick Harrison, a Howard University sociologist and former chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, agreed that growing numbers of second- and third-generation Hispanics may lose some of their cultural identity as they become more assimilated in the U.S.
“Some portion might indeed become, for most social purposes, ‘white,'” he said.
The truth is that Most Hispanics are White. Even if some of us have some Indian or Black in us, in the Latin Nations, White is determined by your appearance or social class. Progressives have tried to deny the European roots of Hispanics by emphasizing an Native American identity. This is a carry over from the one drop rule. La Raza needs Hispanics to be non white so they can create a victim group. Nativists still think the Duke of Parma and the Spanish Tercios are at Calais waiting for the Armada. Hence they refuse to accept Hispanics as being of the same European roots as them.
As a Hispanic, I do view myself as White. So the talk of the death of White America is exaggerated. It just must means White America will have a bit more Sabor (flavor)!
This is all irrelevant anyway, we are all Americans regardless of race. Culture should define us, not some mythical construct as Race.
(Hat Tip: MikeA)
