Latinos – Believe it or Not – Are Thriving in Tuscaloosa

Toosca-donde? Talk about a Latino population boom! (more like a bang, but we won’t go there, for obvious reasons). The number of Latinos in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has almost tripled in the last […]

The Census numbers are out for California and there’re two big stories to talk about; first, that Latino children are now the majority in California, and second, that as Latinos […]

[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. I recently mentioned […]

Former Texas State Demographer and Census Director Steve Murdock made an excellent presentation about the state’s Census results. He talks about the growing Latino population, growing Latino children in the […]

USA Today created an interactive Census map showing what areas of which state, by county, have grown or decreased in population, along with information on race and ethnicity. Check it […]

The weekly unfolding of Census numbers has been fun to watch. Every day there’s more concrete evidence of the wide-spread Latino growth and presence across the US.  Places that we generally regard […]

My friend Henry Flores, who teaches political science at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, said something startling to me. The midterm election was an aberration. The result was due to low voter turn out. Not only that, […]

Someone had to have that distinction, what with all the Census numbers and head counting going on. It turns out that West Virginia is the least Latino state in the […]

Former Census Director and Texas Demographer Steve Murdock has gotten a lot of flack over a quote misattributed to him, “It’s basically over for Anglos,” in Texas. National Institute for […]

Not to gloat and say “I told you so,” but I told you so. We’ve been talking at News Taco about how the totals for the Latino population in the […]