Queens, Manhattan, Milwaukee and Philadelphia lost more than 100,000 Whites each in the past decade. Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia all lost White people even as their populations grew, albeit by less than the 13.2 percent national average. Out here, it's wide open spaces. With the White population older than the minority population, many Whites recorded in the 1990 census simply died, demographers say. Other younger Whites flooded out of New York and the Northeast headed for booming metropolitan areas like Phoenix or Denver.
Whites tend to be more mobile because they have higher incomes than members of some minority groups.
The White racial category includes some Hispanics, who are not members of a race but an ethnicity. Nationally, about 8 percent of Whites are Hispanic. Separating out Anglos in Texas showed that their populations shrank in large numbers in major cities across Texas. About 82,000 disappeared from Houston, in the largest statewide decline. The number in Dallas went down 63,000, while 30,000 Whites no longer live in El Paso.