Kenneth Brown
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OK, I know how the slamming will start, racist redneck and all that. Thats ok, I'll accept it. Not a racist, but definetly a redneck. I see this in Kalipornia's future also. What am I talking about? This-<br /><br />For the first time since the 1800s, non-Hispanic whites are no longer the majority ethnic group in Texas, according to new Census Bureau information.<br /><br />Whether in the U.S. legally or illegally, Texas now is dominated by Hispanics, most of whom once hailed from south of the border in Mexico.<br /><br />"Texas was dominated by Indians and a few Spanish settlers until 1821, when the new Mexican government allowed Americans to enter as long as they pledged allegiance, turned Catholic and learned Spanish," the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.<br /><br />Since then, however, as more whites entered, an independence movement began. The revolution succeeded in ousting Mexico's control over Texas in 1836, and by the time it became a U.S. state, whites dominated the landscape.<br /><br />Along with Texas' lose of the white majority, the Census Bureau also found the state's poverty rate has been on the rise as well.<br /><br />Supporters of immigration reform say the state's poverty statistics directly coincide with its loss of the white majority, being replaced mostly by poor Hispanic migrants from Mexico.