is Significantly More Diverse Than Previously Thought, A New Divide?
TREND: THE U.S. IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE DIVERSE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT – The U.S. Is more racially and ethnically diverse than previously thought, according to an analysis of recently released 2000 Census data by The Washington Post, and that diversity is rapidly spreading beyond traditional immigrant gateways such as New York and Los Angeles, into the nation’s suburbs and beyond. The most growth was noted among Hispanics and Asians, and in heartland states like Mississippi and Wisconsin, whose Hispanic populations have more than doubled since 1990. Officials interviewed by the Post attributed the dispersion of racial and ethnic minorities to the spread of job opportunities as the economy strengthened throughout the 1990s. Growth occurred much more rapidly in small to mid-sized towns than in larger cities, continuing the suburbanization trend reported in the 1990 census. However, enough immigrants settled in the nation’s large cities to stabilize their populations, which had declined pr
