SACRAMENTO, July 8 (UPI) -- Demographers have predicted it for a while, but it's now official -- Latinos now outnumber white people in California, new Census data says.
New population figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau last month found that as of July 1, 2014, there were an estimated 14.99 million Latinos in California and 14.92 million white people.
In February 2013, the Department of Finance estimated each of the demographic groups would represent an equal 39 percent of the population by June 2014, with Latinos taking the majority shortly thereafter. Looks like they nailed that prediction.
"This is sort of the official statistical recognition of something that has been underway for almost an entire generation," Roberto Suro, director of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at University of Southern California, told the Los Angeles Times.
California, Hawaii and New Mexico are the only three states in the United States without a white majority.
