Hispanics Key to Clinton Victories in Nation’s Two Biggest States (Mar 7, 2008)

Sen. Hillary Clinton would not have won primaries in the nation’s two largest states—California and Texas—if Latinos had not turned out in such large numbers and if they had not voted so heavily in her favor, according to an analysis of exit polling data. She also would not have carried a third state—New Mexico—without strong Latino support. In all three states, Latinos accounted for at least 30% of the total votes cast in the Democratic primary, and Clinton outpolled Sen. Barack Obama among Latinos by a ratio of about two-to-one.

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Hispanics in the 2008 Election: Maryland (Feb 8, 2008)

Maryland’s Hispanic population is the 20th largest in the nation. More than 341,000 Hispanics reside in Maryland, 1% of all Hispanics in the United States. There are 112,000 eligible Hispanic voters in Maryland, less than 1% of all U.S. Hispanic eligible voters. This fact sheet provides key demographic information on Latino eligible voters. It also contains data on other major groups of eligible voters in Maryland, with comparative data for the U.S. All data are from the Census Bureau’s 2006 American Community Survey.

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The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of U.S. Public Schools (Aug 30, 2007)

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on school desegregation have focused public attention on the degree of racial and ethnic integration in the nation’s public schools. A new analysis of public school data finds that since 1993-94 white students have become less isolated from minority students while, at the same time, black and Hispanic students have become slightly more isolated from white students. These two seemingly contradictory trends stem mainly from the same powerful demographic shift: an increase of more than 55% in the Hispanic slice of the public school population since 1993-94.

In Maryland, which experienced the largest increase in Hispanic students’ isolation from white students of any state over the 12-year period, 21% of Hispanic students were educated in nearly all-minority public schools in 2005-06, compared with 7% in 1993-94.

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