The numbers in the chart above are from the United States Census Bureau. It shows why Texas Republicans are scared to death of the demographic change happening in Texas -- and why they are doing everything they can to suppress voting in the state.
While Whites are still the largest group in the state -- both in population and registered voters -- it is just barely. And the future is coming fast. By next year (2021), Hispanics will be the largest group in the state -- surpassing Whites.
And Whites are no longer the majority of the Texas population. They only make up 42.03% of the population -- while Hispanics comprise 40.53%, Blacks 12.31%, and Asians 5.13%. That means the Nonwhites make up 57.97% of the population. And both Hispanics and Blacks are growing faster as a portion of the population than Whites -- and Asians are growing almost as fast as Whites.
Here's how The Texas Tribune reports the demographic change happening:
Texas’ Hispanic population has grown by more than 2 million since 2010, according to new population estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, and the state's demographer now predicts that Hispanics will be the state's largest population group by mid-2021.
An annual gain of 201,675 between July 2018 and July 2019 pushedthe count of Hispanic residents to more than 11.5 million, the census estimates show. Although annual growth has slowed slightly in recent years, the new figures put a sharp point on how quickly the Hispanic population continues to climb. The annual growth in Hispanic residents has outpaced the combined growth among white, Black and Asian residents every year since 2010.
Texas still has a bigger white population — up to 11.95 million last year — but it grew by just 36,440 last year and by about half a million since 2010. White population growth has been so sluggish this decade that the increase in the number of Asian Texans, who make up a small share of the total population, has almost caught up with the increase in white Texans.
