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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArizona Republican: Not enough white kids to go around.
Sixty percent of public school children in the state of Arizona today are minorities. That complicates racial integration because there arent enough white kids to go around.
Arizona state Rep. David Stringer (R), quoted by the Phoenix New Times, adding that immigration is an existential threat to the United States.
https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/13/bonus-quote-of-the-day-967/
dameatball
(7,411 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)seems unlikely
As of 1 July 2017, 83.3% of Arizonans identified as "white" and only 13.4% were foreign-born
While it is true that only about 55.5% of the population considers themselves non-Hispanic/non-Latino white, the first non-aboriginal settlers were (as the state name might suggest) Hispanic -- and they started showing up there after 1539, building a number of missions in the 1600s and 1700s. It didn't become US territory until after the Mexican war, and Arizona didn't become a state until 1912
The 2016 American Community Survey indicated that about 73% of all adults speak only English at home and about 71% of all school-age children speak only English at home
About 20% of Arizonans speak Spanish at home. The next-most-common language seems to be Navajo, spoken at-home by about 1.5% of the population
MineralMan
(146,359 posts)Better make nice with them...
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Plenty of garden-variety racism involved, but the fact that U.S. whites are becoming the minority is key, especially when you consider they tend to vote Democratic.