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What It Means to Be a Texan Is Changing in Surprising Ways

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Article discusses the continuing demographic change in Texas from White Majority to White Minority, and nonwhite immigration to the state. I really really am hungry for some TexMex now.

White people make up a declining minority in Texas, even among those born in the state. And all those people moving in? They’re as likely to be Black, Hispanic or Asian.
A group of chambelanes waiting before a quinceañera in Midland, Texas.Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York Times
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J. David GoodmanEdgar SandovalRobert Gebeloff
By J. David Goodman, Edgar Sandoval and Robert Gebeloff
The reporters traveled across a broad expanse of Texas for a look at the new reality reflected in U.S. census figures.
  • Nov. 13, 2023

All 80 employees of their company, Premier Energy Services, are Hispanic, reflecting a shift that has slowly transformed Texas’ oil-rich western expanse. Where a roughneck — the grease-stained symbol of Texas’ economic identity — was once typically a white man hoping to strike black gold, the average oil field worker is now a Hispanic man who was born in Texas.
“Growing up, my dad used to take me to work in the oil fields. It was a white man’s industry,” said a foreman, Alfredo Ramirez, 31, a third-generation Mexican American. “Today it is us Latinos.”
Mark Matta, a city councilman in Odessa, chuckled as he described a television series about a Texas oil rig in which most of the workers were white. “That show flipped our reality,” he said.


The state has long been defined by demographic change, particularly its growing Hispanic population. But the nature of those changes, and how profound they have become, has often been misunderstood, even by those who follow the state closely.


The New York Times collected years of census data, analyzed migration patterns and traveled to communities across Texas to understand what is happening in the nation’s second most populous state, a place that offers an important window into the future of both national politics and the attempts to deal with questions of identity and diversity.

Children of Immigrants Shift Texas Demographics​

Hispanics born in Texas outnumber white people born in the state.


What stood out was the degree to which Texas already has become a state of immigrants, a population that is now multigenerational.
The fastest growing demographic group is made up of the children of immigrants, predominantly Texas-born Hispanics. That means that white people, who had long been the state’s largest demographic group, are now outnumbered by those who are Hispanic, even among native-born Texans, a change first documented by the U.S. Census Bureau this year.
A visitor to the state 30 years ago would have encountered two born-and-bred white Texans for every Latino born on Texas soil. Today, those groups are of nearly equal size.
 
Oh, yes!

A microcosm of present-day America.

Self-identified "liberals" are terribly excited over this development.

They are certain that it will lead to a Utopia.
 
Oh, yes!

A microcosm of present-day America.

Self-identified "liberals" are terribly excited over this development.

They are certain that it will lead to a Utopia.
It will lead to...change, expected and unexpected. That can be a good thing.

I went down to a competition at a place below San Antonio. I was expecting biscuits and gravy for the morning hotel breakfast. They had Mexican style eggs and refried beans instead. The beans were awesome.
 
Self-identified "liberals" are terribly excited over this development. They are certain that it will lead to a Utopia.
America was founded on the idea of immigration, why is this just a liberal thing?
Or are you saying what many are coming to realize, that modern Conservatism is anti-American?

George Washington: “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong,”

Ethno-centrism is in all of our blood. The question is, do you reject it or embrace it? Some choose to reject it in favor of using reason to guide our choices. Just like we reject a lot of animal impulses we have, to create a better society.
Some choose instead, to embrace it and let instinct/emotion drive their choices.
You appear to fall in the latter category, you prefer an ethno-state of whites of primarily European decent. Everyone else in small numbers and they better keep to themselves and not cause trouble.
Our American culture and language should dominate, else, corrections would need to be made.

How are you gonna reach your utopia, unless you just come right out and say it? What do you have to lose, at your age (you always tell us), just be honest about it, no beating around the bush.
Better start getting the trains fired up so you can start mass deportation. Or maybe gas chambers was your thing? Whatever it is, utopia awaits you.
 
I went down to a competition at a place below San Antonio. I was expecting biscuits and gravy for the morning hotel breakfast. They had Mexican style eggs and refried beans instead. The beans were awesome.
Health experts tell us beans are very nutritious.

Certainly better for us than biscuits.
 
Mexicans were here first and then the "Texians." The cultural influence has always been part of the fabric of my life. I'll reflect on that later when I drive down Villa Maria.
 
I spent the last 2 years of my career in Corpus/Ingleside on the USS Inchon LPH-12 as she converted over from a Amphib Helo Ship.........to a Mine Sweeper mother ship MCS-12.

Hung out up in the Sinton area playing golf, and all the courses around Corpus as well.

Hung out in the laid back bars around Aransas Pass.

Hung out on Padre Island.

I probably had more friends of Mexican/Latino heritage that I did with the sailors.

The anglo/mexican population was pretty tightly knit in those areas.

Unlike Dallas/Houston/LA/NYC
 
I spent the last 2 years of my career in Corpus/Ingleside on the USS Inchon LPH-12 as she converted over from a Amphib Helo Ship.........to a Mine Sweeper mother ship MCS-12.

Hung out up in the Sinton area playing golf, and all the courses around Corpus as well.

Hung out in the laid back bars around Aransas Pass.

Hung out on Padre Island.

I probably had more friends of Mexican/Latino heritage that I did with the sailors.

The anglo/mexican population was pretty tightly knit in those areas.

Unlike Dallas/Houston/LA/NYC
No idea about LA or NYC or Dallas, but you didn't mention San Antonio. ;)

In Houston, it depends on your neighborhood and your cultural interests as well, including philanthropic, but because Texas was once part of Mexico, Hispanic culture has always enriched us.
 
No idea about LA or NYC or Dallas, but you didn't mention San Antonio. ;)

In Houston, it depends on your neighborhood and your cultural interests as well, including philanthropic, but because Texas was once part of Mexico, Hispanic culture has always enriched us.


I didn't get up there enough to get a pulse of the people in the area. Three times if memory serves me right.

I do remember the riverwalk being really nice. Is the Esquire tavern still there?

I never bothered seeing the Alamo. I knew it would be a disappointment.
 
I didn't get up there enough to get a pulse of the people in the area. Three times if memory serves me right.

I do remember the riverwalk being really nice. Is the Esquire tavern still there?

I never bothered seeing the Alamo. I knew it would be a disappointment.
Why did you know that it would be a disappointment? Its size?

I'd say that the blending of Hispanic and Anglo cultures in San Antonio began long before the turn of the 20th century through intermarriage, and there have been Hispanic debutantes as long as I can remember. Perhaps of interest:

Formerly part of Spain and then Mexico, Texas has deep Hispanic roots. Most of the food, entertainment, and cultural celebrations that Texans enjoy are part of their Hispanic heritage. Spanish people were among the original Texans, and their history is part of the legacy of the state. They say if you want to learn about the Hispanic culture in the United States, the city of San Antonio in the Lone Star State is the place to visit.

The city of San Antonio, Texas, was established about 300 years ago. It’s where the Spanish claimed the New World and set up missions among the indigenous people. Today, the city is a multi-cultural metropolis celebrating Hispanic heritage through historic neighborhoods, unique festivals, traditional food, and more. Learn more about the Hispanic cultural influence of San Antonio. https://texashappens.com/about-the-hispanic-cultural-influence-on-san-antonio/
 
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