NY Times: Non-Hispanic Whites Are Now a Minority in the 23-County New York Region

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Non-Hispanic Whites Are Now a Minority in the 23-County New York Region

By SAM ROBERTS
Published: March 27, 2011


For the first time, black, Hispanic and Asian residents of New York City and its suburbs are a majority of the metropolitan area’s more than 19 million residents, according to the 2010 census, released last week.

New York is the first major metropolitan area in the country outside the South or West in which non-Hispanic whites have become a minority of the population.

Some of the same dynamic that transformed New York into a majority-minority city in the 1980s also contributed to that benchmark in the 23 counties that make up the metropolitan area: New York’s five boroughs, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties, Fairfield County in Connecticut and 12 counties in New Jersey.

In 2000, the census found that non-Hispanic whites made up 54.3 percent of the area’s population. By 2010, their share had declined to 49.6 percent. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/nyregion/28nycensus.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion

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1. Huge Asian influx.

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2. Koren influx

At least in Queens, Koreans are replacing the Hispanics.