Survey Seyz Kansas City Latinos Surpass Black Population

A recent conversation contends that migration trends have taken hold in Kansas City and continue to change our communities. 

Here's the background . . .  

Susan Pendergrass speaks with J.S. Onésimo “Ness” Sandoval, demographer and professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University, about what the data says about the future of the St. Louis region . . . They also discuss the role of housing supply, school choice, crime, and domestic migration.

Caveat . . . 

We should note that there is still some debate about this info but, in general, Latinos moving into second place in terms of local racial/ethnic population numbers has been ACKNOWLEDGED by most elected leaders.

Here's the word . . .  

"Kansas City is a younger region. St. Louis is a fairly old region. Kansas City is a lot younger and it has a large Latino population, and that’s the largest growing population in the country, birth-rate wise. Latinos are now the second largest population in Kansas City. They surpassed the Black population, which I think even shocked me, because we thought we knew this was coming, but we thought this was going to be post-2030. The fact that it already happened shows just how many Latinos are moving there. And then you have an exodus of Black residents leaving Kansas City as well as St. Louis. I always tell people, when you have young Black families leave or young Black adults leave, those children ultimately leave too. And so that’s part of the story."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Show-Me: St. Louis Demographics and the Future of the Region with Ness Sandoval

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