Latino baby boom changing demographics in California

[Tender Branson]

For the first time in modern history, most of the babies being born in California are Latino, according to an analysis of state birth records through 2005 by the Mercury News. Population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau also show that for the first time in 2004 more than half of the children under age 5 in California are Latino.

2004 was the first full year when the number of babies born to Latina mothers nudged past 50 percent of the children born in California; it reached 51.5 percent in 2005. These newest Californians are the leading edge of a Latino demographic surge that will remake the state in unknown ways during the coming decades. But those changes, say demographers, will be driven primarily by the birth of native-born children - not by immigration.

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[Jaggerjack]

We Asians are only there? Hm.

[Padfoot]

We Asians are only there? Hm.

Asians only make up 6% of the nation as a whole so this is actually a pretty high number in comparison to other states.  Most Asian-Americans live in Hawaii.

[Jaggerjack]

We Asians are only there? Hm.

Asians only make up 6% of the nation as a whole so this is actually a pretty high number in comparison to other states.  Most Asian-Americans live in Hawaii.

California has the largest number of Asians (over three million or so)

[Padfoot]

We Asians are only there? Hm.

Asians only make up 6% of the nation as a whole so this is actually a pretty high number in comparison to other states.  Most Asian-Americans live in Hawaii.

California has the largest number of Asians (over three million or so)

my bad.  I was tired and I only bothered to look at percent of population that is Asian.  There aren't even 3 million people living in Hawaii.  lol.

[Kevin]

Don't Asian's have birthrates like those of Whites though? 

[phk]

Don't Asian's have birthrates like those of Whites though? 

I suspect many younger Whites, that would intend to have kids down the line in 5 years are probably leaving.

[Cubby]

We Asians are only there? Hm.

Asians only make up 6% of the nation as a whole so this is actually a pretty high number in comparison to other states.  Most Asian-Americans live in Hawaii.

Not to nitpick here, but for the record Asians are roughly 4.5% of the National Population right now. They were at 3.6% in 2000 and 4.3% in the 2005 ACS. (American Community Survey).