Saturday, March 25, 2006
D.C./Md./Va.: Area Soon to Be Mostly Minority
Area Soon to Be Mostly Minority
Shift in 4-8 Years Will Reshape Politics, Priorities, Experts Say
By D'Vera Cohn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 25, 2006; A01
The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade, a benchmark of the racial and ethnic change that is reconfiguring the area's political, economic and social identity.
Among residents younger than 40, minorities already outnumber whites, and experts say the trends that have driven up those numbers are certain to continue.
When it hits the majority-minority threshold, the Washington region will join a handful of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, among them Miami, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The New York City region will soon be among them.
Washington will cross the threshold in four to eight years, according to various forecasts.
There are two points in this story that were not made very well by the writer.
First, the key word here in growth. Not the color or tace of the people. Just that there are going to be more people in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore area.
Second, the Washington region is home to one of the largest and most-affluent majority-minority suburban juridictions now - that would be Prince George's County, Maryland.
Shift in 4-8 Years Will Reshape Politics, Priorities, Experts Say
By D'Vera Cohn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 25, 2006; A01
The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade, a benchmark of the racial and ethnic change that is reconfiguring the area's political, economic and social identity.
Among residents younger than 40, minorities already outnumber whites, and experts say the trends that have driven up those numbers are certain to continue.
When it hits the majority-minority threshold, the Washington region will join a handful of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, among them Miami, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The New York City region will soon be among them.
Washington will cross the threshold in four to eight years, according to various forecasts.
There are two points in this story that were not made very well by the writer.
First, the key word here in growth. Not the color or tace of the people. Just that there are going to be more people in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore area.
Second, the Washington region is home to one of the largest and most-affluent majority-minority suburban juridictions now - that would be Prince George's County, Maryland.
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