According to the WSJ; the size of the country’s fastest-growing aspect of the population has increased 43% since 2000, and more than doubled since 1990, to 50.5 million last year, when Hispanics accounted for nearly one in six U.S. residents and for 23% of people under the age of 18.
In the past the growth may have been fueled by immigration but now, it is happening the old fashion way.
Two-thirds of U.S. Hispanics are of Mexican origin, they grew by 7.2 million between 2000 and 2010 as a result of births, but according to the WSJ a Washington-based research center attributed only about 4.2 million to immigrant arrivals. In the previous two decades, the number of new Mexican immigrants in the U.S. either matched or exceeded the number of births.
It is also estimated that 80% of the US population growth to 2050 will come from immigrants and their children, whom will be largely Hispanics.
The questions will for the future remains the question of the day and the assimilation of language and culture, how is it going to go?