From the AP:
Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.    The shift has played out over the last decade as Hispanics filled more elected offices, said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at University of California, Irvine.

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