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I have a half-Afro-American

artappraiser — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:24:01 +0000

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I have a half-Afro-American young family member born and raised in urban Milwaukee. She is a professional works in Atlanta and she just loves living in Atlanta's suburbs, has sworn off urban life. So both that and the "multiracial youth" story rang a personal bell with moi....

Thanks for this. I like how

EmmaZahn — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:24 +0000

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Thanks for this. I like how the article says the trend South has "upended some long-held assumptions". Hope they are right because they have been one the greatest purveyor of those assumptions.

The South has had its problems but hopefully with the return of the children of The Southern Diaspora we can put a lot of that behind us.

Hispanics Account for More

artappraiser — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:36:13 +0000

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Hispanics Account for More Than Half of Nation's Growth in Past Decade
Census 2010: 50 Million Latinos

By Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer, Pew Hispanic Center, D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center, March 25, 2011

First chart from the above: