Census Mary Mata March 18, 2013

Fast Growth of Latino Population Blurs Traditional U.S. Racial Lines

There were ways on issues such as health care, education and immigration to communicate with Latinos.

By Associated Press/ New York Daily News

WASHINGTON — Welcome to the new off-white America.

A historic decline in the number of U.S. whites and the fast growth of Latinos are blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as “whiteness” begins to lose its numerical dominance.

Long in coming, the demographic shift was most vividly illustrated in last November’s re-election of President Barack Obama, the first black president, despite a historically low percentage of white supporters.

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