Dramatic Growth In Communities of Color

Today, the Applied Research Center  (ARC) released data showing dramaticincreases in U.S. communities of color.  Pulled from newly released census data, theanalysis confirms an increasingly multi-racial, multi-national and multi-lingualnation.

ARC found a 5.6% increase in Blacks, while Asians and Pacific Islanders(API) are up 18.5% compared to five years ago. The biggest increases came in the Latinocommunity, which grew by 7 million between 2000 and 2005, an increase of nearly20%. 

“The new census data confirms whathas already been predicted.  There will soon be a new majority in the U.S. made upof communities of color,” said Rinku Sen, executive director of the AppliedResearch Center.  “The growth of immigrants hasbeen explosive, but not that’s not the whole story; the face of the nation is changingfrom coast to coast and public officials must respond to the rising majority.”

View the press release and fact sheets on national and statewidedemographic trends here.

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