{"id":44894,"date":"2012-02-10T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44894"},"modified":"2012-02-10T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:11:36","slug":"racialethnic-shifts-in-metro-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/10\/racialethnic-shifts-in-metro-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial\/Ethnic Shifts in Metro Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sangyoub Park sent us a link to a post by the Brookings Institution about the changing racial\/ethnic demographics of the 100 largest metro areas<\/a> in the U.S. While White non-Hispanics still make up the majority in those areas (at 57% of the population), the minority population has grown rapidly in a number of cities; 22 of the top 100 metro areas are now majority-minority:<\/p>\n

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A detailed map of the majority-minority metro areas, with the largest racial\/ethnic minority group in each (and the White non-Hispanic population in parentheses):<\/p>\n

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This demographic shift in metro areas should accelerate, given the racial\/ethnic makeup of the population of children under age 1<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post<\/em> has an interactive map<\/a> that lets you select an area and get detailed demographic information at the Census tract level (racial\/ethnic makeup, household type, etc.) from 1990 to 2010.<\/p>\n

Of course, as Sangyoub points out, being in the numerical majority doesn’t imply that a group no longer meets the definition of a minority group in a social sense. In many areas, racial\/ethnic minorities continue to have less access to or control over economic resources, social prestige, and political power than do non-Hispanic Whites. Accumulated advantages do not get automatically redistributed when demographics change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sangyoub Park sent us a link to a post by the Brookings Institution about the changing racial\/ethnic demographics of the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. While White non-Hispanics still make up the majority in those areas (at 57% of the population), the minority population has grown rapidly in a number of cities; 22 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,285,1759,1760,1754,1757],"class_list":["post-44894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demography","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44899,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44894\/revisions\/44899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}