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The Changing Face of America
The U.S. is becoming much more racially and ethnically diverse.How will that alter the nation’s identity?
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By
Patricia
Smith
The
Yakima
Valley
,
in
central
Washington
State
,
has
so
many
apple
,
pear
,
and
cherry
farms
that
it’s
known
as
the
nation’s
fruit
basket
.
It’s
home
to
more
than
100
sprawling
vineyards
.
The
majestic
peak
of
Mount
Rainier
rises
over
the
lush
fields
and
thriving
orchards
.
In
many
ways
,
it’s
a
picture-perfect
American
landscape
.
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But
this
community
of
nearly
94,000
people
is
quintessentially
American
in
another
,
more
surprising
way
:
The
number
of
Latinos
here
has
doubled
in
just
one
generation
,
now
making
up
almost
half
the
total
population
.
Robert
Ortiz
,
17
,
has
lived
that
transformation
. “
There
are
a
lot
more
events
and
opportunities
for
Latinos
in
Yakima
,”
says
Ortiz
,
a
senior
at
Yakima’s
Eisenhower
High
School
,
where
he’s
student
body
president
.
Even
in
just
the
past
few
years
,
he’s
seen
a
big
change
.
“
I
notice
Spanish
being
spoken
a
lot
more
compared
to
my
freshman
year
,”
says
Ortiz
,
whose
parents
came
to
Yakima
from
Mexico
about
30
years
ago
. “
People
are
getting
a
lot
more
comfortable
.”
The
changes
in
this
farming
valley
mirror
demographic
trends
in
many
U.S
.
cities
and
counties
where
the
population
is
becoming
increasingly
more
diverse
.
In
the
past
two
decades
,
109
counties
in
22
different
states
,
from
California
to
Kansas
to
North
Carolina
,
went
from
majority
white
to
having
populations
in
which
people
of
color
make
up
the
majority
,
according
to
a
recent
report
by
the
Pew
Research
Center
.
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monumental
Shift
America
is
becoming
more
diverse
,
and
according
to
recently
released
2018
data
from
the
Census
Bureau
,
that
diversity
is
increasingly
spreading
out
across
the
country
and
touching
a
much
wider
swath
of
Americans
.
“
There’s
no
question
that
the
U.S
.
is
growing
more
racially
and
ethnically
diverse
,”
says
Mark
Mather
of
the
Population
Reference
Bureau
. “
And
there’s
going
to
be
a
really
rapid
increase
in
diversity
over
the
next
couple
of
generations
.”
Jovelle Tamayo for New York Times Upfront Magazine
Robert Ortiz, 17,
outside his high school in Yakima, Washington
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The
Census
Bureau
has
projected
that
white
people
could
make
up
less
than
50
percent
of
the
U.S
.
population
by
about
2045
.
Already
,
people
of
color
make
up
the
majority
of
the
population
in
five
states
,
plus
Washington
,
D.C
.
The
same
is
true
in
many
major
U.S
.
cities
,
including
New
York
,
Las
Vegas
,
and
Memphis
.
But
unlike
in
decades
past
,
people
of
color
are
no
longer
concentrated
in
major
urban
centers
:
They
now
outnumber
white
people
in
372
of
the
country’s
more
than
3,000
counties
.
Narrowing
the
picture
to
only
the
youngest
Americans
,
people
of
color
already
comprise
a
majority
in
the
U.S
.:
A
recent
Brookings
Institution
analysis
of
2018
census
data
shows
that
among
Americans
under
age
15
,
white
people
now
make
up
just
under
50
percent
.
“There are a lot more events andopportunities for Latinos.” —RobertOrtiz, 17
The
shift
is
monumental
for
a
nation
that
was
founded
by
white
English-speaking
Europeans
and
has
long
wrestled
with
issues
of
race
and
ethnicity
and
engaged
in
highly
charged
debates
over
immigration
.
It
also
has
broad
implications
for
the
country’s
economy
,
its
political
life
,
and
its
identity
.
“
This
is
an
important
tipping
point
,”
says
William
Frey
,
the
senior
demographer
at
the
Brookings
Institution
in
Washington
,
D.C
.
He
describes
the
change
as
a
“
transformation
from
a
mostly
white
baby-boomer
culture
to
the
more
globalized
multiethnic
country
that
we
are
becoming
.”
Several
factors
have
contributed
to
the
shift
.
First
,
in
the
past
four
decades
,
immigration
to
the
U.S
.
has
been
highest
from
countries
like
Mexico
,
China
,
India
,
and
the
Philippines
—
a
result
of
the
1965
Immigration
Act
,
which
opened
the
doors
more
widely
to
immigrants
from
countries
outside
Europe
.
Second
,
people
of
color
have
higher
birth
rates
than
white
people
.
And
finally
,
the
white
population
in
the
U.S
.
is
getting
older
,
and
older
people
tend
to
have
fewer
children
.
Social
changes
are
also
driving
the
shift
.
The
number
of
mixed-race
marriages
—
and
,
as
a
result
,
mixed-race
children
—
is
on
the
rise
:
Multiracial
and
multiethnic
Americans
are
among
the
fastest-growing
demographic
groups
in
the
U.S
.,
with
more
than
11
million
people
identifying
as
mixed
race
in
2018
,
a
65
percent
increase
from
2000
.
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No
country
in
the
world
has
ever
experienced
such
a
quick
and
dramatic
racial
and
ethnic
change
.
So
it’s
still
unclear
what
it
will
mean
for
people
of
color
to
become
the
majority
in
a
nation
with
a
large
generational
divide
—
a
younger
generation
that’s
racially
and
ethnically
diverse
and
an
older
generation
that’s
still
largely
white
(
see
graphs
,
below
)
.
A Snapshot of Change
One
can
see
the
social
upheaval
that
accompanies
this
kind
of
demographic
shift
in
Yakima
.
The
Yakima
Valley
produces
so
much
fruit
that
farmers
have
long
had
trouble
finding
enough
workers
to
harvest
it
all
.
The
work
is
delicate
and
difficult
—
most
fruit
must
be
picked
by
hand
.
Starting
in
the
1940s
,
farmers
found
a
willing
workforce
in
people
from
Mexico
,
who
began
arriving
in
large
numbers
to
fill
wartime
labor
shortages
.
In
the
following
decades
,
many
more
Mexicans
came
to
escape
unemployment
and
economic
hardship
at
home
.
Initially
,
many
came
to
Yakima
on
temporary
work
visas
and
returned
home
after
the
harvest
.
Roberto Galan/Alamy Stock Photo
Vietnamese Americans
participate in a parade in Houston, Texas, in 2018.
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As
farms
expanded
and
refrigerated
warehousing
created
year-round
jobs
,
some
Mexican
workers
stayed
illegally
.
In
19
86
,
many
participated
in
President
Ronald
Reagan’s
amnesty
program
offering
the
chance
for
citizenship
.
Their
families
grew
and
became
part
of
the
community
,
while
workers
from
Mexico
and
Central
America
kept
coming
.
And
that
began
to
change
the
face
of
Yakima
.
Latino
children
began
populating
Yakima
classrooms
,
some
arriving
with
little
or
no
English
.
In
19
99
,
Yakima’s
Eisenhower
High
School
listed
its
student
body
as
23
percent
Latino
and
70
percent
white
.
Today
,
those
numbers
are
essentially
flipped
:
Eisenhower’s
student
population
is
73
percent
Latino
and
23
percent
white
.
“
I
think
overall
in
the
school
,
the
change
is
very
evident
,”
says
Ortiz
,
the
Eisenhower
High
student
. “
More
people
are
speaking
Spanish
.
We
have
clubs
that
are
Hispanic
based
.
We
do
events
for
Hispanics
.
And
at
assemblies
,
we
do
a
lot
more
translating
into
Spanish
.”
Dulce
Gutiérrez
was
born
in
Yakima
and
grew
up
there
.
The
daughter
of
migrant
farm
workers
,
she
started
school
speaking
little
English
.
After
high
school
,
she
got
a
degree
from
the
University
of
Washington
.
In
2015
,
at
age
26
,
she
became
the
first
Mexican
American
to
be
elected
to
Yakima’s
city
council
.
When
Gutiérrez
was
campaigning
for
office
,
she
had
an
ugly
experience
that
captures
the
tensions
many
older
white
residents
of
Yakima
feel
about
their
city’s
changing
demographics
.
She
was
speaking
in
Spanish
to
a
group
of
students
who’d
volunteered
to
hand
out
leaflets
in
a
mostly
Hispanic
neighborhood
when
she
heard
a
white
woman
on
her
porch
across
the
street
yell
out
, “
Go
back
to
Mexico
!”
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Mixed Marriages in the South
Mixed-race couples talk about their lives and families.
Issues as Old as the Nation
Today
,
new
immigrants
from
Latin
America
,
Africa
,
Asia
,
and
other
regions
take
jobs
in
fields
as
diverse
as
farming
,
healthcare
,
and
high
tech
.
Indeed
,
immigrants
have
always
played
a
key
role
in
the
nation’s
growth
:
From
Scottish
immigrant
Alexander
Graham
Bell
,
who
invented
the
telephone
in
the
19th
century
,
to
Russian
immigrant
Sergey
Brin
,
who
cofounded
Google
in
19
98
.
Still
,
the
racial
and
ethnic
diversity
that
new
immigrants
bring
can
be
uncomfortable
for
people
in
parts
of
the
country
that
have
seen
this
demographic
change
only
recently
,
says
Mather
of
the
Population
Reference
Bureau
.
“
It’s
more
in
areas
that
haven’t
seen
much
diversity
in
the
past
,”
Mather
says
, “
where
there’s
this
culture
shock
and
concern
about
the
changes
that
are
taking
place
and
what
that
might
mean
for
our
identity
,
our
culture
,
and
our
economy
.”
In
some
ways
,
these
issues
are
as
old
as
the
nation
itself
.
In
the
18th
century
,
Benjamin
Franklin
feared
that
his
fellow
Pennsylvanians
—
largely
of
British
stock
—
would
be
overwhelmed
by
Germans
,
who
“
will
soon
so
outnumber
us
,
that
all
the
advantages
we
have
will
not
in
my
opinion
be
able
to
preserve
our
language
,
and
even
our
government
will
become
precarious
.”
Yakima’s Eisenhower High is now 73percent Latino.
And
in
the
19th
and
early
20th
centuries
,
a
solidly
Protestant
U.S
.
was
wary
of
the
influx
of
Catholics
and
Jews
.
Indeed
,
the
Irish
,
Italians
,
and
Eastern
Europeans
who
arrived
in
droves
weren’t
universally
considered
white
at
the
time
.
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So
who
will
consider
themselves
Latino
,
Black
,
Asian
,
or
white
later
this
century
?
With
the
upward
trend
in
interethnic
and
interracial
marriages
,
ethnic
and
racial
definitions
may
be
different
in
20
or
30
years
.
“
We’re
headed
in
a
direction
where
I
think
the
categories
that
we
use
today
to
classify
people
will
become
less
meaningful
,”
Mather
says
, “
because
we’re
going
to
become
so
much
of
a
melting
pot
.”
With
reporting
by
Dionne
Searcey
and
Robert
Gebeloff
of
The
New
York
Times
.
More Diverse
Where people of color are already a majority of thepopulation
Jim McMahon
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The Big Shift
The racial/ethnic breakdown of Americans variessubstantially by age group.
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1. Place an order

You fill all the paper instructions in the order form. Make sure you include all the helpful materials so that our academic writers can deliver the perfect paper. It will also help to eliminate unnecessary revisions.

2. Pay for the order

Proceed to pay for the paper so that it can be assigned to one of our expert academic writers. The paper subject is matched with the writer’s area of specialization.

3. Track the progress

You communicate with the writer and know about the progress of the paper. The client can ask the writer for drafts of the paper. The client can upload extra material and include additional instructions from the lecturer. Receive a paper.

4. Download the paper

The paper is sent to your email and uploaded to your personal account. You also get a plagiarism report attached to your paper.

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