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Watch the rapid increase in U.S. diversity over three decades
In 1980, nearly half of U.S. counties — 1,412 of them — had populations that were almost exclusively (98 percent or more) white. Thirty years later, only 149 counties — fewer than five percent — fit that same description.
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Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Since (im)migration policy is no longer based on race, the U.S. gets real diversity. @MxUSlife
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Interracial Brooklyn
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New York, however, was one of the states that had never had laws against interracial marriage.
…What explains the rise of Intermarriage?
The US had a big immigration reform in 1965, which led to a sharp rise in immigration from Asia and Latin America. As the US population became more racially diverse, there was more opportunity for Americans to meet (and fall in love with) people from other races. Immigrant destinations like New York City tend to have more intermarriage as a result of having more racial diversity.
…In order to figure out how many interracial couples there are, one must first divide people into separate and mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories. In dividing people into mutually exclusive racial/ethnic categories, one immediately confronts a series of definition problems that have no unique solution.
The fact is that race exists in America only because we Americans believe in race and invest the categories with meaning…”
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Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival 2011
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“…we have over a million ancestors counting back just 20 generations.” – G. Reginald Daniel
“And since we are migratory by nature, we mix as we migrate. Some migrations are by choice and some are by force. The force can be the slave trade, war, climate or economic – hence the terms war refugee, climate refugee and economic refugee. Economic policies also constantly change and affect trade agreements, tariffs and embargoes – creating push and pull effects on migration patterns.” -Glenn Robinson
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How Immigrants Helped Give Rick Perry His ‘Texas Miracle’
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For much of his tenure as governor of Texas, Rick Perry’s record on immigration made him a darling of Latino Republicans.
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