NEW YORK, U.S.A., February 25, 2004: The Melting Pot, which includes the nation’s largest metropolitan areas and where most immigrants come in search of their American dream, is becoming less white and more diverse at a pace without precedent. Though there is a tone of implicit racism coming from Jonathan Tilove, the author of this article, he examines some interesting facts on the changing demographics in Americas biggest cities. In 1970, Queens (one of New York City’s five boroughs) was 86 percent white. Today the same area is a third white and nearly half foreign-born. The Richmond Hills area of Queens, now with a predominately Indian population, has changed from 60 percent to 28 percent white in the last ten years. New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Miami and Chicago are the areas where the largest, longest and most universal wave of immigration in history is arriving on American shores, says this article. Unlike the multilingual cosmopolitanism of New York and New Jersey, immigration is predominantly Latino in Texas, California and Florida. And in Texas and California — the states with the largest populations — immigrants are mostly from Mexico. More than half of all newborns in California are Latino, and Latinos likely will outnumber non-Latino whites in Texas by 2020. In 1960, more than half of Californians were born in other states, and fewer than one in 10 were born abroad. By 2000, 26 percent of Californians were foreign-born. For the full article, click on “source” above.
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