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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Wikipedia's demographics of Texas has a really weird breakdown of the stats including contrasting non-Hispanic whites(32%) with Hispanics of any race (37%) and at the same time identifying over 70% of the population as "white."
While 'Hispanic' confounds the data because it's an ethnicity, it doesn't make sense to consider race in some and not other categories and ethnicity in some and not others. In short, I'm still going with "plurality" and this guy being fail.
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Long story short, non-Hispanic whites aren't the minority. No group surpassed non-Hispanic whites.
The most I found was projection data:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/chs/popdat/ST2010.shtm
Not to get bogged down with this detail, I'm really humored that I was questioning my intelligence when I read his claim and read your response. It's funny that he attempted the minority angle and it was inaccurate. People also confuse "Hispanic population is growing" with "non-Hispanic white population is smaller than every other population." Such confusion works very well for the Texas political and racial climate.