One-on-One with Jim Gonzalez, Chair of the Latino Policy Coalition

“A California Department of Finance Report population report, released July 10, projects that Latinos will make up the majority of the state’s population by 2042. That is 52 percent, compared to Whites at 26 percent, Asians at 13 percent, Blacks at five percent, multi-race persons at two percent and both American Indian and Hawaiian/Pacific Islander groups at one percent.

Jim Gonzalez, Chair of the Latino Policy Coalition, a national, non-partisan, non-profit consortium of Latino research organizations and scholars, believes that the statistics basically reflect what has already occurred in California, and that the so-called minority is already the majority, when one tallies current populations for Blacks, Latinos, Asian Pacific and other communities.

He spoke to Final Call Staff Writer Charlene Muhammad about the report’s impact in what he deems the most diverse state in America.”

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