People of color make up 95% of Texas' population growth, and cities and suburbs are booming
Source: Texas Tribune
Setting the stage for what is expected to be a bruising battle over political representation, the results of the 2020 census released Thursday showed that Texas’ explosive growth over the past decade was again powered by people of color.
And it is the state’s cities and suburbs that are booming, with Texas home to three of the country’s 10 largest cities and four of the fastest-growing.
Texas gained the most residents of any state since 2010, and its Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with just half a percentage point separating them. Texas gained nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010.
Texans of color accounted for 95% of the state’s population growth. The 2020 census puts the state’s population at 29,145,505 — a 16% jump from 25.1 million in 2010. Hispanic Texans were responsible for half of that increase. Non-Hispanic white Texans now make up just 39.8% of the state’s population — down from 45% in 2010. Meanwhile, the share of Hispanic Texans has grown to 39.3%.
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Now we know why Republicans are trying so hard to make it hard for people in their State to vote.
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GOP obviously believes their votes matter enough to pass restrictions. Turn Texas blue. 
standard. Wide variations on that general idea applied virtually everywhere. Including in Mexico, where some whites today identify mestizo, mixed, to ignore racial differences, while others are as protective of their white identity as their counterparts elsewhere.
This is today, long after intermarriage became increasingly common. The census, in asking people to identify white race, black race or Hispanic culture, neither reflects how large numbers of people (like your husband) really self identify, culturally or racially, nor how social scientists count races.
But, again, the current problem with subtracting a double-digit percentage of white people from the white total is about the critical elections coming up. The white percentage of the whole is shrinking, but more accurate numbers would hopefully not create so much anxiety among those for whom the world is changing way too fast. It's about their votes. We need more wobblies voting positively for needed things like better schools and sustainable fresh water use and fewer trying to apply the brakes by voting for Republicans.
If the tRumpists/Republicans had introduced this Hispanic trick of subtracting whites into the census, people on both sides would be howling about government conspiracies, and whatever. Fear and anxiety bring out not just conservatives to vote but conservatism in voters. Remember those working class white men who voted tRump in 2016? We got some of them back, but will they stay?
