White Population Growth Mainly Driven by Hispanics

Census Bureau now reports that the white share of the total U.S. population fell a bit, from 78 percent in 2000 to 75 percent in 2010. The absolute growth in the number of whites (+14.1 million) still grew. Importantly, however, most that growth came from the rising number of Hispanic whites (+10.4 million). The absolute number of non-Hispanic whites (t…