US On Front Lines of Demographic Transformation
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Channel: Voice of America · 2010 · News & Politics
The U. S. population has passed the 300 million mark in the past decade, with non-white groups accounting for most of that growth. A new study of census data for 100 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. shows that many black, Asian, Hispanic, foreign-born and single people are moving to the suburbs, once populated mostly by white middle-class families with children. VOA's Zlatica Hoke says the demographic transition has come to Annandale, a suburb of Washington D.C.