Kentucky grows with minority residents - USATODAY.com: Kentucky remains a largely white state, but it was minority residents who spurred its population rise in the past decade, 2010 U.S. Census data released Thursday show.
'It's minorities that are surging the growth of the state's population. Non-Hispanic whites are growing slower than the state (overall) average,' said state demographer Michael Price, interim director of the Kentucky State Data Center at the University of Louisville.
Kentucky saw its population climb 7.4% to 4.3 million from slight more than 4 million in 2000. Non-Hispanic whites grew 3.8% and constitute about 86% of the state's total, down from 89% a decade ago.
