Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracialPosted in Articles, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2014-11-04 18:10Z by Steven |
Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial
The Cincinnati Enquirer
2014-10-21
Mark Curnutte, Social Justice/Minority Affairs Reporter
Photos and video by:
Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist
A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C.
EAST PRICE HILL – Lydia Perez is 2 years old, with the curly black hair and dark eyes of her father’s Guatemalan heritage. Her complexion is fairer than his, more like that of her white mother, a woman of Appalachian descent who grew up in Lower Price Hill.
Lydia is 1 of 50 people now counted as bi-racial in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. But by the time she’s in her late 40s, in 2060, 1 in 7 people in our region will claim two or more races.
This is your grandchild’s Cincinnati: A place where a quarter of the people speak Spanish; where thousands more Latin Americans, East Africans, Asians and others live and work; and where increasing diversity is having profound influence on our families, schools, workplaces and politics.
The changes are part of dramatic shifts projected across America’s heartland in the next 50 years. A new diversity index by USA Today suggests that many of our communities will look less like the Cincinnati we know today and more like multi-ethnic Austin, Texas, or suburban Washington, D.C.
In many of our neighborhoods, chances will be 50/50 that the next person your child or grandchild meets in 2060 will be of a different race or ethnic background. In our eight closest-in counties, about one-third of us will be non-white, compared to 18 percent in 2010…
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