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Saturday Morning News

Census Reveals Changing Face of California

Aired March 31, 2001 - 9:41 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: The 2000 census is pointing out the many changes taking place across the country, and California is just one state where residents are on the move.

CNN's James Hattori paints a picture of the changing times.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JAMES HATTORI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Take a look at the new face of California. Two-day-old Abel Chavez, Jr., could be poster child for the surge in Hispanic population, which is changing the social fabric of the Golden State. His mother, Tannia, was born to Costa Rican parents. Abel Sr., emigrated from Jalisco (ph), Mexico.

ABEL CHAVEZ, FATHER: Well, my uncle told me there's a lot of good stuff here, you know, you can grow up a lot, you can learn a lot of things.

HATTORI: According to new U.S. Census figures, Hispanics account for more than 75 percent of the state's population growth over the last decade.

(on camera): California is giving birth to a whole new demographic reality, joining Hawaii, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia, all areas where whites are not in the majority.

MARK BALDASSARE, SOCIOLOGIST: The change that's occurring in this state is happening at a lot faster pace than any of us had imagined.

HATTORI (voice-over): Changes embodied by the Sadsad (ph) family and newborn Riana (ph). Asians are the fastest-growing minority in the state, largely from new immigration. Grandmother Delores Mercado came to San Francisco from the Philippines in 1972.

DELORES MERCADO, GRANDMOTHER: Whatever your race or nationality, it's welcome to California.

HATTORI: The Golden State is a melting pot like no other. Whites now make up almost 47 percent, Hispanics 32 percent, Asians almost 11 percent, and blacks about 6 percent. The changing demographics are not without challenges, like satisfying new demands for political influence. BALDASSARE: In many of the areas where Latino and Asian population has been growing the fastest, are areas in which African- Americans have typically held political power in this state.

HATTORI: The other major population shift, Californians fleeing the crowded and expensive Los Angeles and San Francisco metropolitan areas.

BALDASSARE: So many people have moved to the counties surrounding Los Angeles and to the Central Valley area.

HATTORI: Still, many, like the Chavez family, couldn't imagine living anywhere but California.

TANNIA CHAVEZ, MOTHER: My older son, he says he wants to learn his next language, he wants to learn Chinese. He wants to learn how to write Chinese.

HATTORI: From Spanish to English to Mandarin -- only in California.

James Hattori, CNN, San Francisco.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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