Census shows Inland area's cultural generation gap

[Jeanfromfillmore]

There are a great deal of comments and debate at the end of this article. It seems the article is very insulting to many people. Does that surprise anyone?

Census shows Inland area's cultural generation gap
The Inland area's soaring Latino population and aging white households are creating a growing ethnic and racial generation gap, newly released census figures show.
Nearly two-thirds of Riverside and San Bernardino counties' residents 65 and older are white non-Hispanic -- while nearly 80 percent of children 5 and younger are non-white -- according to numbers released late Wednesday from the 2010 U.S. Census.
The statistics are the latest from the once-every-10-years count of the nation's population. Initial statistics on the Inland area were released in March and May, and more will be released in coming months.
Across the nation, primarily suburban areas like the Inland region are seeing growing gaps as they become more diverse and the white population ages, said William Frey, a senior fellow and demographer with the Metropolitan Policy Institute.
Frey said large "cultural generation gaps" can lead to tension, as in Arizona, where white voters overwhelmingly support the state's tough anti-illegal-immigration law.
Some older white residents may be resentful at having to pay more for schools and other services when most kids benefiting are non-white, he said.
"Forty or 50 years ago, these children were their own children and grandchildren," Frey said. "Now it's somebody else's. It's easier to sell needs and services to an older population if it's for their own families. When they see someone else come in, they don't feel the same personal connection."
But, Frey said, "in the long term, people will come to grips and realize that the younger population is the future and that they will benefit from these folks" because they will pay taxes that fund services and will occupy jobs that take care of older residents.
The generation gap in the Inland area illustrates the massive shift in who is moving to the region and elsewhere in California, said Hans Johnson, co-author of "The Inland Empire in 2015," a 2008 demographic study.
"The older population is the people who represent events that occurred many years ago," said Johnson, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California . "In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, there was a lot of migration to California from other states, and that population was overwhelmingly white non-Hispanic. Now the growth is fueled primarily by international migration, people coming mostly from Latin America and Asia."
Widening Gap
The Inland region had the largest increase in Hispanics between 2000 and 2010 of any U.S. metropolitan area, according to Metropolitan Policy Institute of the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution.
The area's Asian population, which is also significantly younger than average, nearly doubled in the past 10 years.
A report last year by the policy institute found that the Inland region had the second-largest disparity between the racial and ethnic backgrounds of young and old people among the 100 metropolitan areas.
Only Phoenix had a bigger "cultural generation gap," according to the study, which was based upon 2008 census estimates.
Data from 2010 on age and ethnicity have not been released for most of the country's metropolitan areas, so an updated comparison with most of the nation is not available.
But Johnson predicted that, with the overwhelming majority of young people in the Inland area being non-white, the gap will widen.
In addition, immigrants in the Inland area are more likely to be adults of child-bearing age than other residents. And they typically have larger families than native-born residents, including U.S.-born Latinos, he said.
The median age of whites in Riverside County was 46.1 in 2010, the census found. The median age for Latinos was 25.4. "Median" is the midpoint of all ages.
The difference in median ages is about three years less in San Bernardino County because there are fewer seniors than in Riverside County, which is home to retirement havens such as the Coachella Valley, Johnson said.
California as a whole has a big generation gap, but not as large as the Inland area's.
Katie Keyes has witnessed decades of change in the Inland area. Keyes, 68, has lived her entire life in the Perris Valley. The large majority of residents were white when she was growing up. The city of Perris is now 72 percent Latino.
Keyes said she's heard a few isolated grumblings about the area's changing demographics. But Keyes said most people get along.
"I don't have a problem with it myself," said Keyes, who now lives in Menifee. "I'm an unprejudiced person. I'm the type of person who knows that people need a place to live, and we are closer to the border than other areas."
Keyes is president of the Perris Valley Historical Museum, which trains young bilingual docents to explain the region's history to Spanish-speaking newcomers. She likes how family oriented and hard-working many Hispanics are, and how Latino parents want a better life for their children.
"A lot of their parents push them and stand behind them," she said.
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[ilbegone]

David Olsen is indoctrinated.

The article describes a tension or "class struggle" between old white / young Hispanic.

Olsen doesn't make an inquiry concerning multi-generational Hispanics who compete for jobs with illegals, are not considered "Mexican" by Mexican nationals with some in various degrees between the cultures with many not at all "Mexican" regardless of ancestry; nor does he seem to objectively interview older Hispanics who may, while growing all the cactus and chiles and eating beans with tortillas while speaking a majority percentage of English in "Spanglish" with relatives, might have a disconnect with with the illegals coming over the border now.

I believe that to a certain extent the mixing of young people of all races in America to become "us" is prevented only by the racist element within all races and abetted by an indoctrinated and compromised subjective media and clueless or subordinated academia pushing divisive "diversity".