Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110415:15:33:00
Areas count hispanics at their largest minority. william frye is a senior fellow for the metropolitan policy program at the brookings institution and joins us this morning. i want to get to the basic numbers from the census first. one in every six americans is hispanic, and the hispanic population jumped from 42% over the last decade. when is the last time we saw this growth explosion from a minority group in our nation? >> well, it certainly is very spectacular, and i think what's important about this set of numbers that were released yesterday is it shows a dispersion of hispanics to parts o...