Ay, Chihuahua! Spic boom in MD since 2000

[CountDeMoney]

And they're fixing their numbers.

"Si senor, I am blanco."

Maryland hispanic population booms since 2000

WASHINGTON - The Maryland Hispanic population has increased by at least 65 percent since the 2000 Census, contributing to increasing ethnic diversity nationally, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.

There are 375,830 Hispanics living in Maryland as of 2007, an increase from 227,916 in 2000, according to Census Bureau data analyzed by the Maryland Department of Planning and released Wednesday. After Hispanics, Asian immigration ranks second with a 29 percent increase.

The Census Bureau American Community Survey reported that the massive increase in immigration from Latin American and Asian countries over the last 40 years "has been the major force changing the racial and ethnic composition of the American population."

Senior Research Analyst Jill Wilson of the Brookings Institute said the huge increase is due partly to the rising number of intermarriages and how foreign-born respondents, those living in the United States without being naturalized, view the concept of race.

"We have to remember that these data are self-reported," Wilson said.

The foreign-born population may have a different interpretation of race depending on which country they come from, she said.

For example, respondents of Cuban origin are more likely to identify themselves as "White" than respondents of Dominican Republic origin, who more often identify themselves as "Some Other Race."

In Maryland, 85 percent of Hispanics identified themselves as "White Alone" over other racial options.

The majority of Maryland Hispanics reside in Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Both counties have seen the greatest increases in Hispanic population through the years. However, there's been a recent wave of migration to Western Maryland and suburban Washington.

Frederick County's Hispanic population's change since 2000 was 192 percent, while Washington County's was 150 percent -- the two highest increases in all Maryland jurisdictions.

"In the Washington suburbs, in general, there's been a dramatic increase; part of that is because of new immigration flows to Washington, an immigration gateway," Wilson said.

She said a large portion of the Hispanics living in the metropolitan area moved to the suburbs for more affordable housing or to become first-time homebuyers in a cheaper market.

The previous housing boom created a lot of job opportunities for immigrants drawn to construction and manual labor opportunities, she said.

Soon, however, undocumented immigrants may find it more difficult to find jobs.

Frederick County Commissioners will decide in February whether to install the controversial E-Verify system, a federally-operated, Internet-based program that confirms the status of workers. E-Verify has been criticized for using databases riddled with errors.

Maryland ranks the 13th highest in the nation in immigration. Nearly 227,500 immigrants have taken residence in Maryland since the last decennial census.

About 6 percent of the total national population is Hispanic, according to the community survey. In 1960, 75 percent of the foreign-born were European, while only 9.4 percent were Hispanic. Hispanics now represent nearly half the foreign-born population, according to the survey.

"Whites, in the 18-and-younger group, are already a minority in many metropolitan areas," Wilson said. "I do think that's a trend that will continue. Immigration is not going to stop any time soon."

[Eddie Teach]

The foreign-born population may have a different interpretation of race depending on which country they come from, she said.

For example, respondents of Cuban origin are more likely to identify themselves as "White" than respondents of Dominican Republic origin, who more often identify themselves as "Some Other Race."

That factoid doesn't necessarily reinforce her point. I suspect upper class Cubans(frequently pure Spanish) were far more likely to immigrate here than upper class Dominicans, due to Castro.

[DisturbedPervert]

"Whites, in the 18-and-younger group, are already a minority in many metropolitan areas," Wilson said

Better get used to it everywhere

[CountDeMoney]

That factoid doesn't necessarily reinforce her point. I suspect upper class Cubans(frequently pure Spanish) were far more likely to immigrate here than upper class Dominicans, due to Castro.

Cuban ex-pats that immigrated due to Castro are 1) usually moving to Florida or New Jersey, where they already have substantial communities and political power, or 2) dead from old age.
Can't blame Castro on this one.

[Alatriste]

La resistencia es fútil, prepárese para ser asimilado (Where does one find an smiley with a Borg cube shaped like a Mexican hat? )

Now, seriously, it's odd how many Americans - non hispanic Americans, I mean - seem to have difficulties understanding than hispanics can be white, black, American native or Asian. It's a cultural category, not an ethnicity.

And regarding Cubans being more likely to identify themselves as 'white', well, they probably are... not only Cuba was Spanish until 1898, the island kept receiving a significant flow of Spanish immigrants long after independence (Fidel Castro's fathers, for example; his father left Spain in 1905 and his mother even later, probably towards 1919-20)   

[CountDeMoney]

It's a cultural category, not an ethnicity.

Well, they both suck.  So stick that in your queso dip and smoke it, Guapo.

[Caliga]

I for one welcome the Hispanification of America. 

[Eddie Teach]

Mexicans make me feel tall.

[Valmy]

It's a cultural category, not an ethnicity.

Well, they both suck.  So stick that in your queso dip and smoke it, Guapo.

Hey if it bothers you have kids.

Ed Anger can't beat the Latino menace through breeding single handedly...or can he?

[Valmy]

I for one welcome the Hispanification of America. 

Coming from a Latinoized part of the country it ain't so bad.

[Admiral Yi]

I wish their women weren't all so tubby.

[Valmy]

I wish their women weren't all so tubby.

They fit in well in America.

Though that might be why Cal and I think them coming here is good 

[DisturbedPervert]

I wish their women weren't all so tubby.

They fit right in

[Admiral Yi]

They fit in well in America.

Though that might be why Cal and I think them coming here is good 

Gringas usually get fat in the ass, which presents it's own problems.  Mexican chicks get fat in the gut, like bar fly chicks.  Nothing remotely attractive about a chick with a big belly.

[Admiral Yi]

Besides, one of the things desperate 3rd world immigrants are supposed to have going for them is they are thin.