Half U.S. Population Growth Is Hispanic, Census Says

Bloomberg reports:

Almost half of U.S. population growth last year was Hispanic, adding the equivalent of a city the size of Phoenix, U.S. Census Bureau statistics showed.

The 1.3 million Hispanics added in the year that ended in July 2005 included 800,000 births and 500,000 immigrants, according to census figures released today. The nation grew by 2.8 million overall, to 296.4 million people.

Hispanics are the U.S.'s largest minority group, at 42.7 million people, followed by blacks, at 39.7 million, according to the figures. Hispanics are now 14.4 percent of the population and blacks are 13.4 percent, Census spokesman Robert Bernstein said.

We wonder how African-Americans in the Democratic Party are going to react, in the future, to these numbers.