Whites Flee New Jersey

The Star-Ledger reports:

The New Jersey population's white majority has been declining for years, but the pace of decline has accelerated, new U.S. Census figures suggest.

Only Massachusetts and North Dakota have lost white residents at a faster rate this decade, according estimates released today, and the change has both economic and social significance, experts said.


"Jobs are moving, and they're taking middle-class whites with them," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. "Jobs and population go hand in hand."

New Jersey's minority population grew nearly 400,000 between 2000 and 2005, the Census' 2005 race and Hispanic-origin population estimates show, while the white population fell more than 94,000.

The expensive state of New Jersey.