Saturday, December 23, 2006
1,200,000 people moved out of New York, and an equal number of people moved into Florida, since 2000. So says the federal government's latest census estimates released this week.America's massive movement from the contracting Northeast and Midwest to the booming south and the Southwest continues unabated.
Emblematic of this historic shift is that New Jersey, a state that's been in the top 10 in terms of population since the 1920, has been bumped by North Carolina. And New York was saved from losing its 3rd place ranking to Florida due only to an influx of 820,000 foreign immigrants.
The states growing the fastest are the very states with large and growing Latino populations, such as Arizona, Florida, Nevada and Texas, or states with smaller but rapidly growing Latino populations, such as North Carolina, Georgia and Idaho.
The old America, dominated by the Northeast and Midwest and by the Industrial era values of standardization and forced assimilation, is fading.It's being replaced by a sunnier America; one that values innovation, choice and diversity.
These are very positive trends for the Latino communities in growth states as well as for the country as a whole.
The irony is that the silliness of Mitt Romney with his state troopers and the statist policies and New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Illinois and others are only adding to the demise of the region.
America’s future is being shaped by its Latino half.
Posted by USTaino at 9:30 PM
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