What demographic changes occurred in non-Latino and Latino population from 1980-90?
While almost all agricultural communities in California became increasingly Latino from 1980 to 1990, the growth of non-Latino population varied considerably from place to place. This dynamic is shown graphically in Figure 1, which displays a box and a diamond for each of the 288 communities. The horizontal axis spreads out the communities from a low to a high growth in total population between 1980 and 1990. The vertical axis measures the population growth of each community from 1980 to 1990. The boxes show the growth in total population. The diamonds show the growth of non-Latino population. Gaps between the growth in total population and the growth in the non-Latino population indicate the amount of population growth due to changes in Latino population. To understand Figure 1, notice the communities at the far left with negative growth in total population. In some cases the diamond and the box are at the same place, showing that the loss in total population was due to the loss of no
