Talk:White Americans in California

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Consistency of definitions and other suggestions for improvement.

This article switches between using a definition of "White Americans" that includes Hispanics and one which excludes them. To be fair, the generally more encyclopedic article White Americans also has that issue, though it does include an explanation in the lead. This makes the article look contradictory with itself, which is surprising for an article which has so far predominantly been edited by a single contributor. Some of the portions which exclude Hispanics are written in a way that could be interpreted as pushing a non neutral POV, which could in the future lead to edit warring and vandalism by other contributors with extreme viewpoints, so my suggestion is to stick to a definition which is inclusive rather than exclusive (but that is just my opinion, and can be discussed here to come to a consensus). For example, California cannot simultaneously have a 72.9% white population and be the second state to have a non-white majority. If you are going to include trivia like this, you should also be careful to make the distinction between a majority and a plurality, as currently it seems that if you split Hispanic and non-Hispanic into different groups, no ethnic group would make up a majority of Californian residents, while if you keep them as a single group, white Americans would make up a clear majority. Finally, please be careful to avoid drawing conclusions based on original research, and try to find more reliable secondary sources like the LA Times article that discuss the topic rather than relying on raw census data, as the latter does not really allow much to be written about the topic without original research. Having multiple secondary sources also establishes notability of the topic to warrant a Wikipedia article. —Fugu Alienking (contribs) 04:29, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Fugu Alienking: I agree with the need for very clear definitions in the article, but we can't necessarily follow the format seen in White American exactly since White Hispanic people comprise nearly half of all White people in California, in the more inclusive definition of white. And yes, reliable secondary sources can and will be found.--Prisencolin (talk) 05:43, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

I agree that "non-Hispanic" should be put into the title or at least added to the claim that "white Americans" make up 36.5% of California's population. Not counting Hispanic white people with other white people is a US American speciality. 93.136.58.35 (talk) 02:29, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Percentages keep being used, but that doesn't tell the whole story. For City entries in the US Total Population per census is listed, though in the text body, only percentages are used; eg: 2000 census X% was White, X% was Black and Hispanics made X% of the population..

The 2010 & 2020 census comparisons for Puerto Rico were extremely informative on the Hispanic Population in that time frame. Since few immigrants coming to the US STAY in Puerto Rico rather than head straight to the Mainland, it's the one parts of the US where the Phenomena (the near disappearance of the "White" Hispanic) was most clearly observedin 10 years, White Hispanics dropped over 85%, Black Hispanic Numbers remained basically the same (surprisingly limited growth), Some Other race &n Two or More Races Growing by over the amount the Whites dropped.

The ACTUAL White Count in California PLUMMETED by 3,314,539 million people between 1990-20120 according to the Census. Almost no non-Hispanic Whites immigrated to the state from overseas or from other US states. Instead, they either fled the states policies and crime, or simply died without enough White Children born to replace them.

1990 Census: 17,029,126

2000 Census: 15,816,790 Loss: 1,212,336 7.12%

2010 Census: 14,956,253 Loss: 860,537 5.44%

2020 Census: 13,714,587 Loss: 1,241,666 8.3%

White Mother Births in California: NVSR Data from CDC

2000: 171,552

2013: 143,531

2021: 115,845

Unfortunately, I cannot find the state-by-state breakdown for deaths by race, only the births.

On a side note, unless it's the first word in a sentence, "White People" is ALWAYS referred in media to as "white people" (unless the acronym WASP is being used, since wASP would look silly), while Black people are always referred to as Black People. The Founding Fathers spoke of White People in the 1790 Immigration Act. The Founders were themselves all White; mainly the WASP identity.2603:7080:CB3F:5032:89E0:30DB:20D8:BD9 (talk) 08:18, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

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