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08/10/2008: "Data shows nearly even racial mix in Silicon Valley"

Over the course of this decade, the South Bay had one of the biggest population drops among whites in California, according to census data released today. That trend, combined with a continued surge in Asian population, has given Santa Clara County an uncommon racial mix:

Whites, Asians and Hispanics are more evenly balanced here than anywhere else in America.

In new data being released today, the Census Bureau said there are now 302 counties - nearly one in 10 - that are "majority minority," where whites are less than half the population.

[ How pluralism always happens: people bailing out of a bad situation leaves a cosmopolitan and mostly useless population. ]

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