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eNewsletter � 06/08/2010  Vol. 10-01
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State of
Metropolitan America


ON THE FRONT LINES OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSFORMATION

by The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program � 2010

Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 83 percent of U.S. population growth from 2000 to 2008.The continued faster growth of Hispanic, Asian, and black populations put the country as a whole on track to reach "majority minority" status by 2042, and for children to reach that milestone by 2023. More than three-quarters of racial and ethnic minorities today live in the nation's 100 largest metro areas.

A majority of Asians, and a near-majority of Hispanics, live in just 10 metropolitan areas. Yet during the 2000s a slow dispersal of these groups continued away from major immigrant gateway areas like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Fast-growing areas of the South like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. ranked among the largest gainers of Asian and Hispanic population from 2000 to 2008.

Metro areas in the Southeast and the Interior West, and a few in the Midwest, exhibited some of the most rapid gains in Hispanic and Asian populations in the 2000s. During the latter part of the decade, however, Hispanic and Asian growth retrenched toward major gateways like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami, as the housing market collapse and recession slowed the movement of these groups to places like Riverside, Phoenix, and Orlando.

Blacks continue to move southward, as metro Atlanta surpassed metro Chicago for total black population by 2008. Whites moved to many of these "New South" areas in large numbers as well during the 2000s, though their population shrank in large, coastal metro areas like Los Angeles and New York that continued to attract significant minority populations.

For the first time, a majority of all racial/ethnic groups in large metro areas live in the suburbs. Deep divides by race and ethnicity still separate cities and suburbs in metro areas like Detroit, but others like Los Angeles show much greater convergence between jurisdictions. In a handful of cities including Atlanta, Boston, and Washington, D.C., the share of population that is white increased during the 2000s.

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