Non-Hispanic Whites Are Now a Minority in the 23-County New York Region
For the first time, black, Hispanic and Asian residents of New York City and its suburbs are a majority of the metropolitan area’s more than 19 million residents, according to the 2010 census, released last week.
New York is the first major metropolitan area in the country outside the South or West in which non-Hispanic whites have become a minority of the population.
Some of the same dynamic that transformed New York into a majority-minority city in the 1980s also contributed to that benchmark in the 23 counties that make up the metropolitan area: New York’s five boroughs, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties, Fairfield County in Connecticut and 12 counties in New Jersey.
In 2000, the census found that non-Hispanic whites made up 54.3 percent of the area’s population. By 2010, their share had declined to 49.6 percent.
“It reflects the way the country is going; it’s becoming more diverse,” said Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College of the City University of New York. “It’s America now.”
Still, despite the proliferation of other racial and ethnic groups, the New York City area grew the slowest, by 3.1 percent, of the 10 largest metropolitan areas.
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I'm fine with diversity but to suggest that anything is TOO white is pretty crass IMO.
. U.S. Census figures printed in the Houston Chronicle last week showed that Texas is now 38% Hispanic and 46% Anglo. That's pretty close to an even split and I don't exactly see the sky falling down here. Look at history and there was the same stupid racist and ethnic hysteria about the Irish back in the mid-19th century, the Chinese in the late 19th century, the blacks after emancipation, Italians around the turn of the century....blah, blah blah. Now it's the Hispanics turn to feel the hate. Why is it imperative that white Americans maintain the majority? I wonder what any surviving Lakota Sioux or Arapaho or Cheyenne might have to say about that. 
