Date: May 27th, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: cheese-eating laser beams
Key metrics are the rate of change:
Below text was copy/pasted from a PDF of the book Friday Night Lights at page 161 of 348. Of note: County as a whole 1960-5% Hispanic. 1985-25% Hispanic. Today 64.5% Hispanic. 40 years. But this doesn't really tell the whole story.
https://imgur.com/a/OOKCQtm
Lets look at the kid's demographics:
Permian in 1988 - 69% White and 23% Hispanic. Today 71.4% Hispanic and 19.2% White.
https://imgur.com/a/ZzCIoka
Of note, there is only 1 school district for the county (Ector) and only 2 high schools (Odessa HS and Permian). Point is, there is not some White majority suburb in Ector County where all the White people moved to, and thus we are not getting the whole picture of the demographic situation by looking at the schools in the city. Whites are simply gone. Replaced.
In 1960, the Hispanic population of the county had been about 6 percent.
By 1985, census data showed that 25 percent of the approximately one
hundred thirty thousand people living in the county were Hispanic, and that
estimate may have been low since the proportion of Hispanics in the school
system was around 40 percent.
At Odessa High the effects of the demographic shift were even more
pronounced. In 1969 the school had been 94 percent white and 6 percent
Hispanic. In 1983, a year after the implementation of court-ordered
desegregation, the proportion of white students was 59 percent and that of
Hispanics 36 percent. In 1988, for the first time ever, the proportion of
white students dropped below half, to 48 percent. Hispanics made up 47
percent of the student population and blacks and other minorities the
remaining 5 percent.
There had been changes in the ethnic makeup of Permian, but they were
not nearly as radical. In 1983, as a result of desegregation the proportion of
white students at Permian was 76 percent and that of Hispanics 14 percent.
In 1988 whites made up 69 percent and Hispanics 23 percent of the student
body
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730365&forum_id=2Elisa#48965346)