A front page story in today’s USA Today reports that
[t]he nation’s two largest minority groups are following strikingly different paths: Hispanics are moving to areas with few from their ethnic group; African-Americans are moving to suburbs in the South that have large black populations, Census estimates released Thursday show.
“These are two major waves in America,” says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “One is the black return to the South. The other is Hispanics going to places where everybody else is moving, following the jobs.”
The July 1, 2004, estimates show that the share of Hispanics living in counties with large concentrations of Hispanics is slipping.
I’m surprised “civil rights groups” haven’t complained. After all, given the reigning “civil rights” theory of voting rights, Hispanics are guilty of “diluting” their votes by un-concentrating themselves. As Abigail Thernstrom, who wrote the best book on voting rights, writes in an OpEd today in the Los Angeles Times, John Roberts as a young Justice Dept. lawyer accurately predicted in 1982 that switching from an “intent” to a “results” standard in determining voting discrimination “would create a minority entitlement ‘to electoral representation proportional to their population in the community.'”
But as Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) asked at the time, “Are individuals elected to office to represent individual citizens or
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John says,
Those are indeed the implications of such ethnic-representation opinions. The metaphysics of such attitudes, a radically racialized conflict view of the world, would also imply that Gumplowicz was one of the great philosophers! Imagine that, Poland was the place where the mind of man revealed the secret principle driving history, irreducible racial conflict!
And then there’s the fact that “Hispanic” is not a race. Hispanics are as different as people from a dozen countries can possibly be, from all economic, cultural, racial, religious, ethnic, and social backgrounds.
I know.
I’m Puerto Rican.