Native-born Californians regain majority status
A USC study finds that immigration has peaked in the state, a longtime melting pot. Border restrictions and the recession are seen as factors.
California has long been the ultimate melting pot, with the majority of its population coming from outside the state.
Dust Bowl emigres, Asian railroad workers, high-tech entrepreneurs, Mexican laborers and war refugees from around the globe flocked to California. The majority migrant population filled the state's myriad labor needs, challenged the schools with a cacophony of new languages and roiled its politics with immigration debates.
But, in a dramatic demographic shift, California's narrative as the nation's quintessential immigrant state is giving way to a new reality.
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