Latina Lista: More States Need Commissions to Address Latino/Hispanic Needs

“The U.S. Census reveals that Utah is pretty much a homogenous state when it comes to ethnic diversity. In 2004, 93.8 percent of the population was categorized as “white.” Hispanics, the largest population of color, comprised only 10.6 percent of the population.

With those numbers, Utah doesn’t even rank in the top 13 states with the highest number of Latinos but that didn’t stop Utah Governor Jon Huntsman from naming Jesse Soriano as Director of the state’s Hispanic/Latino Affairs department earlier this month. “

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