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Steve Murdock has worn many hats over the years. Gov. Rick Perry appointed him as the first official state demographer of Texas. He ran the U.S. Census Bureau for President George W. Bush. He now teaches at Rice University.
But you might simply call him the fortuneteller of Texas. Over the past three decades, he has predicted, quite accurately, the size and diversity of our future population. Murdock uses spreadsheets to see the future. He estimates he's presented them 250 times throughout the state over the past decade.
Out of a dizzying display of data emerges the story of Texas, a tale he tells with a broad smile but with a sense of urgency .
By 2010, Anglos comprised a smaller proportion of our population than in 2000, while the share of other racial and ethnic groups rose. From 2000 to 2010, non-white Texans accounted for 89 percent of our growth. About a third of the children in the state are white, less than 20 percent in the largest metro areas.
Forty-eight percent of Texans younger than 18 are Hispanic. You could build a 20-foot wall on the southern border or import every techie from California, but it wouldn't make a dent in the projections. Murdock explains that black and Hispanic children will largely determine the future of Texas.
Texans must prepare for a different Texas
Texans must prepare for a different Texas - San Antonio Express-News
Steve Murdock has worn many hats over the years. Gov. Rick Perry appointed him as the first official state demographer of Texas. He ran the U.S. Census Bureau for President George W. Bush. He now teaches at Rice University.
But you might simply call him the fortuneteller of Texas. Over the past three decades, he has predicted, quite accurately, the size and diversity of our future population. Murdock uses spreadsheets to see the future. He estimates he's presented them 250 times throughout the state over the past decade.
Out of a dizzying display of data emerges the story of Texas, a tale he tells with a broad smile but with a sense of urgency .
By 2010, Anglos comprised a smaller proportion of our population than in 2000, while the share of other racial and ethnic groups rose. From 2000 to 2010, non-white Texans accounted for 89 percent of our growth. About a third of the children in the state are white, less than 20 percent in the largest metro areas.
Forty-eight percent of Texans younger than 18 are Hispanic. You could build a 20-foot wall on the southern border or import every techie from California, but it wouldn't make a dent in the projections. Murdock explains that black and Hispanic children will largely determine the future of Texas.
He's simply presenting demographic projections
You people are acting like doing so is somehow unAmerican.
It's a perfectly sensible thing to do.
Texans must prepare for a different Texas
Texans must prepare for a different Texas - San Antonio Express-News
Steve Murdock has worn many hats over the years. Gov. Rick Perry appointed him as the first official state demographer of Texas. He ran the U.S. Census Bureau for President George W. Bush. He now teaches at Rice University.
But you might simply call him the fortuneteller of Texas. Over the past three decades, he has predicted, quite accurately, the size and diversity of our future population. Murdock uses spreadsheets to see the future. He estimates he's presented them 250 times throughout the state over the past decade.
Out of a dizzying display of data emerges the story of Texas, a tale he tells with a broad smile but with a sense of urgency .
By 2010, Anglos comprised a smaller proportion of our population than in 2000, while the share of other racial and ethnic groups rose. From 2000 to 2010, non-white Texans accounted for 89 percent of our growth. About a third of the children in the state are white, less than 20 percent in the largest metro areas.
Forty-eight percent of Texans younger than 18 are Hispanic. You could build a 20-foot wall on the southern border or import every techie from California, but it wouldn't make a dent in the projections. Murdock explains that black and Hispanic children will largely determine the future of Texas.
Because once whites become the minority, then they can start whining about being so and get all the special attention and quotas, while the new majority's special attention and quotas be taken away.
Won't that be special.
He's simply presenting demographic projections
You people are acting like doing so is somehow unAmerican.
It's a perfectly sensible thing to do.
If you are a politician or in sales, it makes sense.
But I am trying to understand WHY he thinks it matters.
We Texans are scared shitless and wringing our hands in despair.
We Texans are scared shitless and wringing our hands in despair.
Why would you be scared of becoming a blue state?
wth?
aren't we all AMERCIANS?
what's with this crap of separating us into race, color of skin, etc
this is tearing this country apart
wth?
aren't we all AMERCIANS?
what's with this crap of separating us into race, color of skin, etc
this is tearing this country apart
just gives a bit of insight and how the republican party has treated people color and what will happen with the demographic shift
One Southern Republican lawmaker who asked to remain anonymous said of Immigration reforms opposition: Part of it, I think and I hate to say this, because these are my people but I hate to say it, but its racial.
Lee Atwater famously advised Republicans to:
You start out in 1954 by saying, ******, ******, ******. By 1968 you cant say ******that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states rights, and all that stuff, and youre getting so abstract. Now, youre talking about cutting taxes, and all these things youre talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. We want to cut this, is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ******, ******.
The Southern Strategy has been the cornerstone of Republican politics for at least five decades. While former Republican National Committee chairmen Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele admitted (and apologized) that Republicans use racist appeals to motivate white voters, the Southern Strategy remains central to their partys electoral logic and approach. Paul Ryans racism and embrace of the Southern Strategy is the Republican Partys conventional wisdom in practice.
If you go to town halls people say things like, These people have different cultural customs than we do. And thats code for race, the Republican continued.
Republicans admit racism is contributing to immigration reform gridlock - Salon.com
wth?
aren't we all AMERCIANS?
what's with this crap of separating us into race, color of skin, etc
this is tearing this country apart
just gives a bit of insight and how the republican party has treated people color and what will happen with the demographic shift
One Southern Republican lawmaker who asked to remain anonymous said of Immigration reforms opposition: Part of it, I think and I hate to say this, because these are my people but I hate to say it, but its racial.
Lee Atwater famously advised Republicans to:
You start out in 1954 by saying, ******, ******, ******. By 1968 you cant say ******that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states rights, and all that stuff, and youre getting so abstract. Now, youre talking about cutting taxes, and all these things youre talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. We want to cut this, is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ******, ******.
The Southern Strategy has been the cornerstone of Republican politics for at least five decades. While former Republican National Committee chairmen Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele admitted (and apologized) that Republicans use racist appeals to motivate white voters, the Southern Strategy remains central to their partys electoral logic and approach. Paul Ryans racism and embrace of the Southern Strategy is the Republican Partys conventional wisdom in practice.
If you go to town halls people say things like, These people have different cultural customs than we do. And thats code for race, the Republican continued.
Republicans admit racism is contributing to immigration reform gridlock - Salon.com
the takeover and selling out of our country is well under way
and not a shot need be fired
how sad, and some citizens sit here cheering
