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MIAMI, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The Census Bureau announced Thursday that Florida's Hispanic population has grown by 500,000 since the 2000 census.
Miami-Dade is the most Hispanic of the nation's two dozen largest urban counties.
The Bronx in New York joined the list of those with a Hispanic majority, increasing from 48 percent to 51 percent Hispanic.
The other large county with a Hispanic majority is Bexar County, Texas, where San Antonio is located. The Hispanic population in Bexar County rose slightly to 56 percent.
More than half of Florida's growth occurred in south Florida, The Miami Herald reported.
In Miami-Dade County, the Hispanic majority increased from 57 percent to 60 percent in 2003 and in neighboring Broward County it rose to 20 percent of the population -- an increase of 28 percent.
Broward County's white non-Hispanic population remains a majority at 53 percent after a decline of 42,000 while Miami-Dade County's white non-Hispanic minority dropped to 19 percent of the total.
The Hispanic increases are caused by both immigration and -- in the case of Broward County -- movement from Miami-Dade County.
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