Latino Census Headline is Off the Mark

So the big headline this morning concerning Latinos and the US Census is that Latinos are now 1 in 6 of the US population. Honestly though, the drum roll on […]

By Abby Rapoport The Republicans in Texas have been trying for years to pass voter ID legislation—and today they very likely will be almost done. The measure, which requires voters […]

So now that we’re 42 states into the 50-state Census roll-out reveal it’s a good time to pause to see where we are and what to expect. Back in the […]

News last week that the Arizona state senate had rejected five stringent anti-immigrant bills seemed to signal a turning point in the fear-the-immigrant narrative that has been spreading across the country […]

[Editor’s note: This was written by Dr. Henry Flores, professor of Political Science and Dean of the Graduate School at St. Mary’s University, in San Antonio, Texas. He is a […]

I consider myself lucky to have grown up in Los Angeles and so many people from so many places. At the time, I thought it was normal to live next-door […]

By their own admission Minnesotans aren’t the most diverse group of people. 87 percent of that state’s population is white. Minnesota state demographer Tom Gillaspy was quoted in the startribune.com: […]

How do you get a group of Republican politicians to run away from you as fast as they can? Say something stupid like this, reported in the BuffaloNews.com, in the […]

An analysis of 2010 Census data by USA Today revealed that Hispanics in states with some of the largest Hispanic populations categorized themselves by race more often than in the […]

[Editor’s note: For several months we at News Taco have thought and said that the number of Latinos in the United States was larger than the roughly 50 million projected […]