Saturday, June 12, 2010  Minority report  Readers of Monster
Island will recall that one out of every five children in the US
is Latino.  Well, the Census Bureau, anxious to release some
data to show how hard they're working (despite actually being
horribly incompetently managed) has released some new stats that
are along the same lines: 35 percent of all the people in the
United States are minorities (i.e., non-Hispanic Whites). In
California, far and away the most populous state in the country,
that number is 65 percent.  From the Los Angeles Times: Across
the nation, the number of minorities continues to rise and the
white population continues to decline, according to U.S. census
estimates released Thursday.  Minorities now make up about 35%
of the population in the United States, an increase of 5% from
2000, reflecting demographic changes seen most powerfully in the
Golden State.  "More of the country is going to be like
California," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings
Institution. Minorit