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Florida’s Hispanic population to grow more rapidly than that of state

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s Hispanic population will significantly outpace the state’s non-Hispanic white and black populations over the next 25 years, largely because of migration and high birth rates among this relatively young group of migrants, according to the latest projections from the University of Florida.

Filed under Hispanic, Race, Research on Tuesday, July 20, 2004.

Housing segregation persists in many parts of nation, study shows

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Neighborhood integration is necessary to reduce school segregation but Americans continue to remain separated in their neighborhoods a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, a new nationwide study by the University of Florida finds.

Filed under Black, Hispanic, Law, Politics, Race, Research on Thursday, May 6, 2004.