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DALLAS, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- New Census Bureau figures confirm a growing Hispanic population is slowly changing the face of Texas.
The figures released Thursday show Anglos are no longer the majority population in the state and experts attribute the turnabout to more Latino residents.
State Demographer Steve Murdock said the increase is due to the rising tide of immigration and higher birth rates among the non-Anglo population of the state.
Murdock said immigration in recent years has amounted to 25 percent to 40 percent of the state's total growth and it has been overwhelmingly non-Anglo.
The new Texas majority is made up of Hispanics, blacks, Asians, American Indians and others, but Latinos are the largest segment of the new majority.
In 2003, 49.5 percent of Texas's 21.5 million population was Anglo, down from 52.6 percent four years earlier. The Hispanic population, on the other hand, rose to 35.3 percent from 32.26 percent in 2000.
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