The biggest shock to emerge so far from preliminary results of the 2000 Census has been the enormous growth in the nation's Hispanic population. The number of Latinos residing in the 50 states jumped by nearly 60 percent, from 22.4 million in 1990 to 35.3 million last year. For the first [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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