Friday, June 15, 2007
News Georgia's changing demographics
Posted by Taylor Barnes on Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Georgia is on track to join an exclusive club, that of states with a majority population of racial minorities, according to the Afro-American Newspaper.
Only Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, and California have majority-minority populations now. But, according to the paper, the U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by 2025, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Arizona, and Nevada are also expected to have less than 50 percent of their population as white.
Whereas growing Latino populations account for most of the nonwhite population in majority-minority states, blacks will be the primary minority in Georgia. Blacks currently make up 29.8% of the state's population, according to the 2005 census.
Atlanta is already majority-minority, with 68.7% of its population as nonwhite or Hispanic, the Brookings Institute's analysis of the 2000 census shows. The city attracts minorities because of its strong, diverse economy and reputation for international business, Brookings demographer William Frey reported.
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