Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Middle Class

From USA Today

Middle Class is a meaningless phrase for analysis to me. How descriptive is something almost everyone claims. But below not a trivial statistic for Illinois politics or the US.

Home buyers with names such as Rodriguez, Garcia and Hernandez bumped Brown, Miller and Davis down the list of most common buyers' names in 2005, reflecting Hispanics' rapid advance into the middle class.
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The changes are dramatic elsewhere, too. No Hispanic names appeared in the top five in Illinois in 2000. Now, Garcia is third and Rodriguez fifth. [my emphasis] Nevada went from zero to three and New Jersey from one to three. "It's startling how rapid the changes are," says Dowell Myers, a housing demographer at the University of Southern California. "People assume that Latinos are poor and that they're not a factor in homeownership. They're really integrating economically."
From zero in the top five to third and fifth in five years is a huge change.

3 comments:

Anonymous,  11:50 AM  

As America becomes more diverse, the need for affirmative action laws which favor minorities disappears. All should be able to compete equally on the basis of qualifications, with no extra points awarded for "diversity."

Elimination of affirmative action laws is unlikely to disappear although it will be interesting to see what happens when whites start taking more advantage of them when they are denied university admission or a government job.

However, what many pro-amnesty voters don't realize is that not only will amnesty increase the number of Hispanics in the country, those Hispanics, under affirmative action laws, will have the extra advantage of being "minorities" allowing them to take jobs and university slots
ahead of native-born whites and blacks who are and always have been legal citizens. It's not PC to say this, but it's true.

The solution is to end affirmative action in hiring and university admissions.

Anonymous,  12:13 PM  
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Anonymous,  8:14 AM  

The problem with the guest worker program is that it provides a road map for ever more illegals to enter the country. Jump the border (nobody believe that either the Repubs or the Dems will be able to secure it) and stay for two years or however long you need to in order to get on the path for legal residency. Two years, five years, whatever. Get legalized, then start bringing in extended family.
Anybody can hide out for two to five years. And even if picked up,
those who came illegally won't be deported.

Meanwhile, wages of legal American workers at the low end will continue to decline under pressure from this huge influx of illegals and "guest workers." And businesses will continue to get rich by exploiting illegal immigration.

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