U.S. Minority Population Growth

May 26, 2009

American Enterprise Institute C-SPAN | Washington Journal

William Frey talked about Census Bureau estimates released earlier this month that show that population growth rate among Asian- and Hispanic-Americans has decreased since the beginning of the decade. He also examined how the recession appears to have slowed their dispersal from traditional magnet metropolitan areas to other parts of the country, .. Read More
William Frey talked about Census Bureau estimates released earlier this month that show that population growth rate among Asian- and Hispanic-Americans has decreased since the beginning of the decade. He also examined how the recession appears to have slowed their dispersal from traditional magnet metropolitan areas to other parts of the country, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic mail.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:06 Unidentified Speaker "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" CONTINUES.
00:00:11 HOST WILLIAM FREY IS A SENIOR FELLOW AND DEMOGRAPHER AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION AND IS HERE TO TALK ABOUT...
00:00:32 GUEST WE HAVE HAD THIS HUGE GROWTH IN IMMIGRANT MINORITY DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND IT IS STILL...
00:01:09 HOST SO, ARE THE IMMIGRANTS -- BECAUSE OF THE BAD ECONOMY.
00:01:14 HOST SO, ARE THEY MAY BE SAYING THE U.S. IS NOT THE LAND OF PLENTY THAT WE THOUGHT AND WE WILL TAKE OUR...
00:01:20 GUEST THEY MAY JUST BE HOLDING UP A LITTLE BIT. THERE ARE LOTS OF NETWORKS GOING BACK AND FORTH, FRIENDS...
00:01:35 HOST WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE STATION ABOUT U.S. MINORITY POPULATION GROWTH FROM WILLIAM FREY...
00:02:23 GUEST I THINK THERE ARE SOME. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SHORT-TERM SLOWDOWN, AND SOME OF THAT I THINK HAS SHOWN...
00:03:13 HOST SOME OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING ARE FROM THE ANALYSIS OF U.S. CENSUS ESTIMATES. THEY SHOW THE PERCENTAGE...
00:03:50 GUEST I THINK THESE STATES HAVE BEEN GOING TO THE MAJORITY MINORITY FOR A WHILE. OF COURSE HAWAII IS ALWAYS...
00:04:14 HOST FROM LOS ANGELES, VINCENT, ON OUR LINE 4 INDEPENDENCETS. WHAT IS ON YOUR MIND THIS MORNING? CALLER:...
00:04:43 HOST WHERE ARE YOU FROM ORIGINALLY? CALLER: I AM FROM ECUADOR.
00:04:49 HOST ARE THERE A LOT OF ECUADORIAN IS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? OR HAVE THEY BACK OFF? CALLER: NO, BUT IN...
00:05:00 GUEST THE NEW CENSUS ESTIMATES BREAK DOWN -- WE KNOW FROM OTHER STUDIES COME FROM THE HISPANIC CENTER, THAT...
00:05:28 HOST NEXT CALL IS FROM OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. CALLER: HOW ARE YOU DOING? I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT WHY WE ARE...
00:06:04 GUEST WELL, THERE ARE CERTAINLY LOTS OF PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD AND THE UNITED STATES TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT,...
00:06:46 HOST THE SLOWDOWN OF THE MINORITY POPULATION DISPERSAL TO NEW DESTINATIONS FOLLOWS THE ECONOMIC DEADPANNED...
00:07:07 GUEST ESPECIALLY PLACES LIKE LAS VEGAS, ORLANDO, PHOENIX, PLACES LIKE THAT THAT MUSHROOMED UP DURING THE...
00:08:33 HOST BILL?
00:08:35 GUEST I DO NOT WANT TO GET HEAVILY INTO IMMIGRATION POLICY IN THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER...
00:09:25 HOST HOUSTON, WELCOME TO THE WASHINGTON JOURNAL, ON OUR LINE FOR REPUBLICANS. CALLER: ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS...
00:09:55 HOST MR. FREY?
00:09:59 GUEST @ THINK IT IS HAPPENING GRADUALLY. I AGREE THAT THEY ARE NOT -- I THINK IT IS HAPPENING GRADUALLY....
00:10:32 HOST I WAS TRYING TO FIND AN ARTICLE I READ THIS MORNING, BUT THERE WAS AN ITEM TODAY THAT SPOKE TO THE...
00:11:05 GUEST THERE IS A LOT OF EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT AS ECONOMIES GET STRONGER, IN MANY OF THESE OTHER PARTS OF...
00:11:51 HOST BEFORE COMING TO THE BROOKINGS AND BUSINESS -- BEFORE COMING TO THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION, WILLIAM...
00:12:51 GUEST WE FIND THAT THE IMMIGRANTS THAT COME TO THE INDUSTRIALIZED CITIES TEND TO HAVE A DIFFERENT MIX IN...
00:14:02 HOST BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK, ALAN, ONLINE FOR DEMOCRATS. CALLER: MY NAME IS NOT ALLEN, IS CLOGGAUDE ELEN....
00:14:36 GUEST I GUESS I CAN SPECULATE THAT SOME OF IT MAY HAVE TO DO WITH THE CARIBBEAN MOVEMENT AS WELL, BECAUSE...
00:14:59 HOST IN THIS "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ARTICLE, SAM ROBERTS WRITES THAT STILLBIRTHS -- STILL, BIRTHS OUTNUMBER...
00:15:33 GUEST THE FERTILITY COMPONENT IS A BIG COMPONENT OF GROWTH IN THE HISPANICS IN THE UNITED STATES THAN THE...
00:16:21 HOST U.S. MINORITY POPULATION GROWTH IS THE POPULATION -- IS THE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM FREY...
00:17:34 GUEST WELL, AS FAR AS THE WAY THESE NUMBERS ARE PRODUCED -- YOU ARE RIGHT, NOBODY IS COMING TO YOUR DOOR...
00:18:23 HOST YOUR ANALYSIS -- WAS TAKEN STRICTLY FROM THE NUMBERS PROVIDED BY THE CENSUS BUREAU, WHERE DID YOU...
00:18:32 GUEST MY ANALYSIS FROM THIS COMES FROM THE CENSUS BUREAU. IT PUT OUT THESE NUMBERS IN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT...
00:18:54 HOST MITCH, OUR LINE FOR DEMOCRATS, IN FLORIDA. CALLER: I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE BIGGER PICTURE. WHEN...
00:20:20 HOST THANKS FOR YOUR CALL.
00:20:22 GUEST YOU BRING UP AN IMPORTANT POINT. I THINK IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, IF NOT SOONER, CERTAINLY...
00:21:32 HOST ON OUR INDEPENDENTS LINE, PAMELA CALLER. CALLER: I THINK IF WE HAD AN ATTITUDE OF EMBRACING MEXICO,...
00:23:04 GUEST I THINK THIS IS AGAIN THE KIND OF QUESTION THAT GETS TO BROADER DEFINED IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT WE...
00:24:00 HOST IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF THE DETAILS OF WILLIAM FREY'S STUDY, DUE TO THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WEBSITE,...
00:24:25 HOST GO AHEAD. CALLER: I WONDER IF THE DEMOGRAPHER HAS DATA ABOUT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF EACH GROUP BY PARTY...
00:24:42 HOST WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT TO YOU, WEIGHED CALLER: MY SUPPOSITION IS THAT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT PAY TAXES ALWAYS...
00:24:52 HOST WE WILL LEAVE IT THERE. ANYTHING IN THE STUDY THAT LOOKS AT VOTING PATTERNS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?...
00:25:00 GUEST NOT REALLY, ALTHOUGH, AS I SAID BEFORE, I THINK DEMOGRAPHERS CAN PROJECT AHEAD, GIVEN THE FACT THAT...
00:25:39 HOST WILLIAM FREY THANK YOU FOR BEING ON THE PROGRAM. HERE IS WHAT IS COMING UP ON THE REST OF "WASHINGTON...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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