From the WSJ:
Between 2000 and 2010, minorities accounted for 98% of the population growth in large metropolitan areas. This rapid expansion has caused big shifts in racial composition: Between 1990 and 2010, the share of the white population in big metropolitan areas fell to 57% from 71%.
Nearly half of the nation’s 50.5 million Hispanics live in just 10 large metro areas — including Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and Miami — but those metro areas accounted for only 36% of Hispanic growth over the past decade. Meanwhile, 29 of the 100 largest metro areas more than doubled their Hispanic populations; in two thirds of these, Mexican Americans contributed most to Hispanic growth.
–Fully one third of the nation’s 14.7 million Asian population live in the Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco metropolitan areas. While Chinese Americans remain the largest origin group among Asians, Asian Indians are dispersing more rapidly and accounted for more growth than other Asian groups in 63 of the 100 largest metro areas.
–Three-quarters of black population gains from 2000 to 2010 occurred in the South. Atlanta, Dallas and Houston led all metropolitan areas in black population gains at the same time that black population dropped in metropolitan New York, Chicago, and Detroit for the first time.