2020 Census says: This ain't your mother's Texas

Wingnuts need not despair of the source of the non Ill Eagle immigration. The Monthly says many Californians don't want to Californicate Texas, and also, that it's not the only source of them. The draw? Besides no personal income tax, contra the Golden State there's also no capital gains tax. (And, the pretense of Tricky Ricky Perry's biz tax was laughable, and deep-pocketed corporations already here spend big bucks on lawyers to challenge their property valuations.) The Monthly also, though, quotes people as saying Tex-ass doesn't have enough skilled employees to meet the biz immigration.

Other takeaways from the long read include that it wasn't just Hispanics in the growth surge of the last decade; Texas saw a huge increase in Asian-American population. When you have an ashram in flyspeck Windom, Texas, you're not in your grandma's Texas or Oldsmobile.

Why? This, in a nutshell:

In Frisco, the largest and fastest-growing minority group is Asian Americans, who make up nearly 21 percent of the city’s population. Some 14 percent of the surrounding county’s population traces its origins to India, with those hailing from South Korea, Japan, and China making up much of the rest. Many are new not just to the North Dallas suburbs but to the U.S. Nearly 23 percent of Frisco residents were born in another country.

There you go. Statewide, Texas is now more ethnically diverse than New York and New Jersey. (California and Hawaii are the top two, with Texas in fifth. I wonder where New Mexico is, even with a small Black population.)

Speaking of? Not mentioned by the Monthly, but this changes the traditional "trio" of Texas demographics. Already, more and more of the Black population was from the new African diaspora, not the descendants of old African-Americans. And, the new diaspora, setting aside worries about racism, doesn't have exactly the same demographic profile.

The next-biggest takeaway? Unless a bunch of Anglo Californians move here, Texas, already a majority-minority state, is, or shortly will be, a Hispanic-plurality state. Aztlan! 

The third-biggest takeaway relates to suits over redistricting. An Asian-American organization is part of at least one of the lawsuits. I don't recall that happening after 2010 redistricting. And, at the same time, groups like the NAACP talking about a surge in Black population in all the lawsuits they're a part of? It is to laugh. Black population in Texas grew by half a percentage point if that. And, half of that growth is based on the percentage of Blacks who are not African-American but rather the new African diaspora.

Give the whole thing a read.