{"id":38065,"date":"2014-11-04T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38065"},"modified":"2014-11-04T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T18:10:09","slug":"cincy-in-2060-1-in-7-of-us-will-be-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38065","title":{"rendered":"Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>
\n2014-10-21<\/p>\n

Mark Curnutte<\/strong><\/a>, Social Justice\/Minority Affairs Reporter<\/p>\n

Photos and video by:<\/p>\n

Cara Owsley<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Photojournalist<\/p>\n

A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

EAST PRICE HILL<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 Lydia Perez is 2 years old, with the curly black hair and dark eyes of her father’s Guatemalan heritage. Her complexion is fairer than his, more like that of her white mother, a woman of Appalachian descent who grew up in Lower Price Hill.<\/p>\n

Lydia is 1 of 50 people now counted as bi-racial in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky<\/a>. But by the time she’s in her late 40s, in 2060, 1 in 7 people in our region will claim two or more races.<\/p>\n

This is your grandchild’s Cincinnati: A place where a quarter of the people speak Spanish; where thousands more Latin Americans, East Africans, Asians and others live and work; and where increasing diversity is having profound influence on our families, schools, workplaces and politics.<\/p>\n

The changes are part of dramatic shifts projected across America’s heartland in the next 50 years. A new diversity index by USA Today<\/em> suggests that many of our communities will look less like the Cincinnati we know today and more like multi-ethnic Austin, Texas<\/a>, or suburban Washington, D.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

In many of our neighborhoods, chances will be 50\/50 that the next person your child or grandchild meets in 2060 will be of a different race or ethnic background. In our eight closest-in counties, about one-third of us will be non-white, compared to 18 percent in 2010…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cincy in 2060: 1 in 7 of us will be biracial The Cincinnati Enquirer 2014-10-21 Mark Curnutte, Social Justice\/Minority Affairs Reporter Photos and video by: Cara Owsley, Staff Photojournalist A new index suggests many of our communities will look less like they do today and more like Austin or Washington, D.C. EAST PRICE HILL \u2013\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[18335,18332,18334,495,18331,260,18333],"class_list":["post-38065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-cara-owsley","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-enquirer","tag-kentucky","tag-mark-curnutte","tag-ohio","tag-the-cincinnati-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}