Minorities gain ground in Texas suburban counties

RICHMOND, Texas — When Hilmar Moore became mayor in 1949, this Southeast Texas town was surrounded by fertile farmland and inhabited mostly by white people.

More than 60 years later, Moore is still mayor, but almost everything else around here has changed.

Richmond now sits in the center of one of the fastest growing counties in the nation's fastest growing mega-state.

The Houston suburb is also one of the most racially diverse — minorities account for almost two-thirds of its population. In 1950, about three-fourths were white.

Fort Bend County is a convenient microcosm for what's happening across America, where 85 percent of the population growth has come from minorities over the last decade. Rather than take over neighborhoods abandoned by whites, minorities are increasingly the first-time home buyers in neighborhoods drawing multiple ethnicities.

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