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Arizona Hispanic Majority on Track by 2020 MESA (Hispanic News) June 22, 2004 -- New state population estimates show Hispanics are still on pace to outnumber whites in Arizona by 2020 and they may even do it sooner. That's the picture found in the Arizona Hispanic Research Center's biennial population projection released this week. The projection is based on figures that show Hispanic growth continued in the financially troubled early 2000s while all other groups held steady. Hispanic growth sped up from 2000 to 2002 because fewer people were coming to Arizona while the economy was down. But Arizona Hispanic Research Center's director Jon Garrido says the state's Hispanic birth rate was much higher than that of other groups. The traditional projection has non-Hispanic whites becoming less than half the populace next year. That projection holds that Hispanics would edge non-Hispanic whites in 2020, with Hispanics becoming a majority by 2035. But if trends continue as they did from 2000 to 2002, non-Hispanic whites could lose the majority this year, with Hispanics becoming the largest ethnic group by 2015 and the Arizona majority by 2030. |
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