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Originally Posted by JoninATX
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High household sizes in Latino (and South and Southeast Asian immigrant) neighborhoods. This does NOT bode well for future sprawl as historical examples show that when immigrants and their kids intermarry and de-camp from the cities en masse, they prefer highly suburban housing. Much of the current housing boom in the south suburbs is being driven by exactly this dynamic. The vast majority of new build neighborhoods in Hays are split between Latinos and conservative whites. There are very few white liberals, very few Asians, and very few African Americans. This also doesn’t bode well for Democrats maintaining their advantage among Latinos in Texas, as they stop being exposed to white liberals in the cities and start exchanging ideas and discourse with white conservatives in the suburbs instead. Perhaps that may make both groups more moderate, or perhaps it might simply turn Tejanos into a 60-40 Republican constituency (the latter seems more likely). Latino and Asian immigrants actually intermarry with native-born whites at higher rates than did comparable generations of Irish and Italian immigrants. Republicans like to talk about how we are not integrating immigrants at a decent pace. The reality is that Latino and Asian immigrants largely do integrate themselves. And quicker, too, which is why household sizes are nowhere near where they were during the previous peaks of immigration.
The same dynamic happened (plus individual factors for each group) to not only both the Irish and Italians, but also to Jewish and Arab immigrants, to the Polish, among others, all of which ended up as highly suburban populations around the cities to which they immigrated with some exceptions (some Jewish groups who remain in cities, most Germans, Scandinavians, Scots-Irish, English/Anglo, Czech, and few others who were initial settler/founder populations and who remain largely rural today and anyone who is from the continent of Africa due to the unfortunate awful history of American slavery and racism… although that is changing more and more for the better even if much more work needs to be done). Basically, the settler populations are peoples who practiced authoritative nuclear family housing styles and the remainder are peoples who did not. Those who succeed in adapting their family housing style to authoritative nuclear family structure succeed (and are able to move up in society) after first being directed into the cities. Those who do not adapt do not succeed and are largely forced to stay in the cities by the economy. That’s just the overwhelming reality of it, for better and for worse.
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