Article on California's Demographic Shift (Long)

i have lived in cali most of my life. spent time in the NW, lived in other states etc....but cali is my home. i have literally lived in both the northern and southern borders. the junior high i went to...whites where the minority. race fights....between the blacks and hispanics.

i'm so sick and tired of race issues. i find the hispanic population a plus for california. i shop at hispanic stores because stores like safeway suck when it comes to anything but meat and potatoes. i shop at asian stores for the same reason. there is nothing wrong with different cultures and food. there is nothing wrong with america being a melting pot. this country is like no other, we embrace virtually all cultures. we are all american. well...the legal ones.
 
Yurt said:
i have lived in cali most of my life. spent time in the NW, lived in other states etc....but cali is my home. i have literally lived in both the northern and southern borders. the junior high i went to...whites where the minority. race fights....between the blacks and hispanics.

i'm so sick and tired of race issues. i find the hispanic population a plus for california. i shop at hispanic stores because stores like safeway suck when it comes to anything but meat and potatoes. i shop at asian stores for the same reason. there is nothing wrong with different cultures and food. there is nothing wrong with america being a melting pot. this country is like no other, we embrace virtually all cultures. we are all american. well...the legal ones.
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After reading the article I didn't find it racially divisive. It's really just stating facts about where the growth in Califiornia is coming from and a big part of that is the Hispanic community. There are always going to be smart people in California but if the info in the article is accurate more college educated people are leaving the state than entering. We would obviously rather that be reversed. Did you feel the article was unfair in its description of the current economic state of the Hispanic community within California?
 
cawacko said:
Since we have a handful of posters here from California I thought they might find this interesting. The basic gist of the article is a big part of California's future depends on the rising Hispanic population within the state to be able to rise in income levels to form a solid middle class.


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_california-demographics.html
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Interesting~ Very spot on with regards to a need for the ethnic population to become more prosperous if all the entitlement spending in the state is to be sustained...
 
cawacko said:
After reading the article I didn't find it racially divisive. It's really just stating facts about where the growth in Califiornia is coming from and a big part of that is the Hispanic community. There are always going to be smart people in California but if the info in the article is accurate more college educated people are leaving the state than entering. We would obviously rather that be reversed. Did you feel the article was unfair in its description of the current economic state of the Hispanic community within California?
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i did not find it racially divisive either. it is about ethnicity though.


The scale and speed of the Golden State’s ethnic transformation are unprecedented. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the most Anglo-Saxon of the nation’s ten largest cities; today, Latinos make up nearly half of the county’s residents and one-third of its voting-age population.
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i don't know what significance college educated people mean to california right now. the number leaving does not stop california from having an economy heavily based on cutting edge technology, silocon valley, sorrento valley etc....imo.

no opinion about fairness, it is a good article.
 
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