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Title: Hispanics guide huge growth in Texas
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URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation ... /2011-02-17-texas-census_N.htm
Published: Feb 17, 2011
Author: Rick Jervis
Post Date: 2011-02-17 21:16:11 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 52380
Comments: 85
Meet the face of the new Texas: Jose Villagran, 39, first-generation Mexican American, four kids, suburbanite. Along with thousands of others like him, Villagran was born in Houston to Mexican parents and still works in the city, but he moved his family to this safer, cheaper suburb 14 miles south of Houston. Census data released Thursday show a robust statewide population spurt the past decade — adding more than 4.2 million residents, or 20.6% — attributed primarily to Hispanics such as Villagran, minorities born in urban centers but quickly spreading to suburbs and rural areas across the state. "There are more Mexicans here than ever before," Villagran, a buyer for a scrap metal company, says of Pasadena. "We've kind of taken over." And then some. Overall, Texas' population grew to more than 25 million, awarding the nation's second most populous state four more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hispanics accounted for 65% of the state's growth since 2000, while non-Hispanic whites experienced the smallest increase of any group, just 4.2%. The black population grew by 22%. "We're seeing the development of two populations groups in Texas: aging Anglos and young minorities," says Steve Murdock, a former Census Bureau director and now a Rice University sociology professor. "We're seeing Hispanic growth not just deepen but become pervasive throughout the state." A healthy state economy during the recent recession and Mexican nationals fleeing drug cartel violence in Mexico also contributed to Texas' population boom, he says. Border towns saw sharp increases: Brownsville's population rose 25% and Laredo's by 33%. But natural Latino population increases — more Latinos born in the state than dying — were the main engine, he says. For the first time in recent history, Texas is less than half non-Hispanic white, dipping to 45%, the data shows. Hispanics make up about 38% of the total population. The state's burgeoning Hispanic population mirrors what's happening across the USA, Murdock says. "The Texas of today is the U.S. of tomorrow," he says. Another telling statistic: Texas added nearly 1 million children under 18 — 95% of them Hispanic, says William Frey, a demographer for the Brookings Institution. "That's the future of the state," he says. "It's a diverse one." The increased Hispanic numbers are expected to spark heated debate in the months ahead over how to redraw districts to accommodate the four new congressional seats and include more minority voters, says Ross Ramsey, managing editor of the Texas Tribune, an online political site. "That's the beginning of a political dogfight," he says. Texas' population surge came in four main areas: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Galveston, San Antonio-Austin and the Rio Grande Valley, all areas with high numbers of Latinos. Those four areas account for 84% of the statewide gain. Houston remains Texas' largest city with 2.1 million residents. San Antonio moved up during the decade to the second slot with 1.3 million, trailed by Dallas with 1.2 million, the data show. In the Houston area, Latinos no longer are confined to the East End neighborhood, their historical enclave, says Deacon Joe Rubio, an administrator for Catholic Charities Houston. Historically white suburbs such as Katy, Dickinson and Pasadena are swelling with Latinos, he says. In Harris County, where Houston is located, the Latino population grew nearly 50% to 1.7 million and Asian Texans grew by 44% to 250,000, while the number of whites dropped from 1.4 million to 1.35 million — a 6% decline. "There is a significant spread from traditional barrios or neighborhoods to suburban areas and other areas where you wouldn't find them before," Rubio says. Once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the setting for the 1980 hit movie Urban Cowboy, Pasadena today is dotted with carnicerias (meat markets), washaterias (laundromats) and taquerias. The former Elks Lodge is now the El Palacio Real, hosting quinceañeras and other traditional Hispanic galas. Resident Raul Silva, 41, has seen the city transform since he moved his wife and two children here from Houston 12 years ago. He says he hopes the new Census figures give Hispanic Texans more political muscle and the ability to self-improve. "We need better representation," says Silva, stopping Thursday for a breakfast taco at Taqueria de Jalisco with his wife, Diana Selestino, 38. "I'd like to see it happen soon."
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#25. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Taken over, working under the table for 100,000 dollars a year while declaring 10,000 dollars in income and paying no taxes and even getting an EITC, while declaring themselves indigent and getting free food, medical and housing benefits. All the while, those stupid caucasions who play by the rules pay for it. Is this a great country or what?
Got a citation to back the words of your urban legend? Even were this so, there you go again; ignoring alleged wrongs of the businesspeople/corporations and picking on rank and file workers. You are correct in that yes, business wants to destroy unions, the middle class and is only interested in more power and money; but you don't really want to go after them. They have money and power and could fuck people like you up if youn really went after them. It is much more fitting a bully and coward like you go after the poorest and least empowered people who couldn't get back at you and others for playing this whack the easiest target game.
I don't know how often what I cited is the case, but I know it is pretty damn often. My wife is Hispanic and knows a lot of folks here in cases just like I cited. (How did small towns in North Carolina become Little Mexico?) Not only do many of these folks do what I stated; they brag about it. Her reactions are mixed; she'd probably have more empathy with them if we could get away with it, too.
Again you have a focus to go after the easy target and show no irritation at the employer for any alleged violations. When I planted trees, companies sprung up that only hired Mexicans and people from Latin America that outbid us, and we heard how the logging and milling companies subsidized and empowered them with the benefits and capital to outbid companies like mine that hired those of use who had always planted. It is hard word, takes one to three hours to drive to than from the job site. Only one out of sixteen people who try planting are able to master the skill and can do it day after day despite weather, terrain, and the shear physical effort and endurance the job requires. 16-24 dollars an hour is fair wage for this work mandated to be done by law to create a sustained yield of timber. But those who pay for reforestation were willing to invest to destroy my employer and others like Jim Luzzi and Bob Boley of Greenhill Reforestation because they prefer the current paradigm where people drive that travel time, pay 20-70 dollars for rain gear, 100-300 dollars for work boots suitable for the job, and do it on 11-13 dollars an hour. I have many friends who are Mexican and plant trees because they were pawns and patsies in the game played to destroy my job. I focus my wrath on the corporations and companies that played the game out of greed and utter disregard for people. But as you show, you play a easier and more cowardly game and go after the pawns and patsies with never a thought to give any shit to those who designed and executed the game for financial gain.
When I planted trees, companies sprung up that only hired Mexicans and people from Latin America that outbid us, and we heard how the logging and milling companies subsidized and empowered them with the benefits and capital to outbid companies like mine that hired those of use who had always planted. It is hard word, takes one to three hours to drive to than from the job site. Only one out of sixteen people who try planting are able to master the skill and can do it day after day despite weather, terrain, and the shear physical effort and endurance the job requires. 16-24 dollars an hour is fair wage for this work mandated to be done by law to create a sustained yield of timber. But those who pay for reforestation were willing to invest to destroy my employer and others like Jim Luzzi and Bob Boley of Greenhill Reforestation because they prefer the current paradigm where people drive that travel time, pay 20-70 dollars for rain gear, 100-300 dollars for work boots suitable for the job, and do it on 11-13 dollars an hour. I have many friends who are Mexican and plant trees because they were pawns and patsies in the game played to destroy my job. I focus my wrath on the corporations and companies that played the game out of greed and utter disregard for people. But as you show, you play a easier and more cowardly game and go after the pawns and patsies with never a thought to give any shit to those who designed and executed the game for financial gain. #21. To: Murron (#15) And you are great at showing you don't have the tools to compete in a discussion in this thread. So"? Ferret Mike posted on 2011-02-18 I was feeling light-hearted when I posted that to e_type_jag, but I'm feeling much better now, so lets 'compete' in this discussion Mike, and please, try not to make this about you, I know it will be hard, most self-centered narcissus have such a time trying to keep the focus on themselves, but you do it so well. Anyway! You think it's hard work, driving one to three hour to a job site and being paid on 16-24 dollars an hour? My father, g-father and uncles in Harlan didn't have the luxury of cars, they walked to to the dark, cold, coal mines and there they laboured, from sun-up, to sun-down, rain, snow, sleet, or come hell and high water... for SLAVE wages. They were not offered, nor would they have accepted, handouts from the government, in fact, they had a BLOODY war going with the government, that is still going on to this day. And they would have shot your presumptuous sniveling pancy ass if you had offered them your sympathy on their behalf. You are no hero for hiring Illegal Aliens above Americans, even if you do think they work harder, that is your opinion, you don't know every American worker in this country, and how hard that man, or woman, would would work given the chance and a decent living wage. What you are is a TRAITOR to this nation and it's people who live here legally. It's the American people who deserve the 'Fair Wage' for their hard work, a home, bread for their children, a shot at a better future, not cowardly squatters who didn't have the courage to stay in their own country and fight for what's right, standing up for themselves, and demanding change in their own country, whether it be with a bullet or a ballot. I focus my "WRATH" on YOU MIKE, and all bleeding heart TRAITORS who give Illegal Invading Parasites the green light to invade our country and push their way to the front of the line, stealing jobs, demanding rights and privileges they didn't have the guts to fight and die for in their beloved Mexico. If you had a grain of decency in you, you'd enlighten yourself to the real hero's of Mexico. It's those who were left behind to do what your sniveling, belly-aching gubmin leeches wouldn't do. These teat suckers you speak of, they tucked tail and ran, leaving their old men and women behind, to do their fighting for them. I'll give you one example of who I would have more respect for, then you can have the floor. You have access to the internet, use it, get off that sanctified horse of yours and educate yourself. Don Alejo was riddled with bullets and with two weapons by his side. Alejo Garza Tamez was the owner of the ranch and a highly respected businessman in Nuevo Leon. A 77 year old man, who before death, took out four gunmen, fighting on his feet with dignity, courage, and honor.
Minuteman terrorist Shawna Forde being escorted out of Pima County Sheriff’s Office. When attackers burst into nine-year-old Brisenia Flores’ Arizona home the night of May 30, 2009, she was asleep on the couch in her family’s living room because she wanted to be close to the family’s new dog. It was one of the last memories Flores’ mother Gina Gonzalez has of her before their lives were ripped apart. Minutes later Gonzalez’s husband Raul Flores Jr. and Brisenia were dead, both were shot at point blank range. Gonzalez had been shot multiple times. She survived only by pretending to be dead, and then later by crawling to her kitchen to retrieve her husband’s gun and firing shots when the intruders returned. It’s a grisly tale, an already devastating crime made outrageous by the possibility that the people who stormed into the Gonzalez home were led by a border vigilante’s twisted racial animosity. The trial for three of Brisenia and Raul Flores’ alleged killers began this week in Arivaca, Arizona. First to be tried is 42-year-old Shawna Forde, the ringleader who allegedly paid drug dealers to go attack a competitor’s home. Forde’s defense has tried to paint Raul Flores as a dealer and a user, but the Daily Beast reports authorities who searched the apartment did not find anything besides pot residue in the house. The plan, the LA Times reported, was to raid people’s homes for cash and jewelry which would fund Forde’s border vigilante group the Minutemen. Gonzalez testified this week and said she could hear her daughter ask why her mother and father had been shot, and then silence as suspected killer Jason Bush reloaded his gun before shooting Brisenia twice in the face. Forde’s attorney insists there is no physical evidence that links Forde to the scene of the crime and that Forde was merely an eccentric who would boast about unrealistic plans to rob drug dealers. Gonzalez could not pick Forde out in a lineup weeks after the murders. But when Forde was arrested several days after the murders, she was found with Gonzalez’s wedding ring and other personal belongings. Forde faces two counts of first degree murder charges, one count of attempted first degree murder and five separate counts of armed robbery, burglary and aggravated assault, according to the blog Immigration Clearinghouse, which is following the trial. Her two co-defendants, Bush and Albert Gaxiola, will be tried after her. The portrait of Forde that has emerged is one of a self-imagined border security crusader who would finance her anti-immigrant activities with violent robberies. Forde had a habit of ending her emails with the sign off, “Lock and Load” and had close ties with tea party groups. She was involved with the Minutemen American Defense—her supporters claim she was once a Minuteman National Director—a loose affiliation of anti-immigration border activists who took to policing the border on their own with guns and surveillance equipment. Forde has also had ties with the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform. These groups have all been labeled hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. FAIR has distanced itself from Forde, and the Minutemen have disavowed one of their most enthusiastic members. This week’s proceedings were interrupted by the antics of Laine Lawless, one of Forde’s Minutemen cohorts and a potential witness. The Arizona Daily Star reported yesterday that Pima County Superior Court Judge John Leonardo immediately sent the jury out of the room when he became aware that Lawless had snuck into the courtroom wearing a black wig, black trench coat and sunglasses. Because she is a potential witness, Lawless is barred from entering the courtroom or having contact with Forde, but said she had the right to be in the courtroom as a “citizen reporter.” The judge disagreed, and barred her from entering the courtroom and the courthouse until or unless she’s called to the stand. It was a truly odd turn for an already surreal murder case. The trial is expected to last up to six weeks. Attorneys said Lawless had violated other court orders not to talk about the case online or to the media. She and another person posing under Forde’s identity had been posting messages on Facebook lambasting the trial proceedings since the trial began. Lawless is the founder of several pro-Forde websites, including justiceforshawnaforde.com. Underneath a photo of Forde, the website has a string of lines: “Racially profiled, false arrested, political agenda prisoner.” Others draw different conclusions. “This was a horrible, tragic, and absolutely race-based coldblooded murder,” Phoenix radio talk show host Carlos Galindo told the Daily Beast, “and we allowed the far right to muddy it up and say her dad was a drug dealer and Brisenia was collateral damage. When we don’t counter that, we allow continued violence against all Arizonans.” Immigration and Latino community advocates consider Brisenia and Raul Flores’ murders part of a documented uptick of violent attacks, murders and hate crimes fueled by anti-immigrant and anti-Latino sentiment that has been fomented by right-wing groups and politicians. http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/01/minuteman_border_vigilante_on_trial_for_b risenia_flores_murder.html
more chuckles.....yeah mike....this makes the case why illegal peasants should be rolling right in here. Everyone knows btw the prisons have 10's of thousands of "Minuteman terrorist Shawna Forde" types under lock and key. chuckles.....carry on.
Everyone knows btw the prisons have 10's of thousands of "Minuteman terrorist Shawna Forde" types under lock and key. chuckles.....carry on. Actually jaggie, I was banned from eLPee after posting an article predicting this sort of problem would rear it's ugly head because of the self serving, glory hungry, and violent nature of some I saw become members of the Minuteman movement. So, naturally as I watch a major player of this vigilante squad get her just desserts with more on the way for her co-conspirators, I am going to naturally be in an "I told you so mood." Besides, I am for an amnesty that requires people to be accountable enough for working toward the end of becoming a citizen or to go back home when their is no need for them to do casual farm labor. I would also reiterate what I said earlier about the victims being American Citizens not involved in the drug trade, thus there was no real excuse for this crime in even the slightest bit.
#73. To: Ferret Mike (#66)
Actually mike I didn't comment or fully read your account because frankly, when comparing whatever this ugly chick did compared the universe sized body of criminal work perpetrated by south of the border criminals either here or pumping dope up here, well......any focus on her actions is like standing on Neptune and trying to locate a grain of sand on Dockweiler Beach. Perspective mike....perspective.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest"There are more Mexicans here than ever before," Villagran, a buyer for a scrap metal company, says of Pasadena. "We've kind of taken over."
#26. To: no gnu taxes (#25)
#28. To: Ferret Mike (#26)
Got a citation to back the words of your urban legend?
#29. To: no gnu taxes (#28)
"Not only do many of these folks do what I stated; they brag about it. "
#35. To: Ferret Mike, no gnu taxes, e_type_jag, A K A Stone, Capitalist Eric, hondo68, borntoweardiamonds, (#29)
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"Not only do many of these folks do what I stated; they brag about it. " Again you have a focus to go after the easy target and show no irritation at the employer for any alleged violations.
#49. To: Murron (#35)
#57. To: Ferret Mike (#49)
Minuteman terrorist Shawna Forde being escorted out of Pima County Sheriff’s Office.
#66. To: e_type_jag (#57)
more chuckles.....yeah mike....this makes the case why illegal peasants should be rolling right in here.
Replies to Comment # 66. I would also reiterate what I said earlier about the victims being American Citizens not involved in the drug trade, thus there was no real excuse for this crime in even the slightest bit.
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