Confusion arises from the fact that race is a spectrum and the censuses try to divide it into clear cut categories.
For the census I linked on Wikipedia, Hispanic and White aren't mutually exclusive. In Wikipedia's "Hispanic" article they write, "Because Hispanic roots are considered aligned with a European ancestry (Spain/Portugal), Hispanic/Latino ancestry is defined solely as an ethnic designation (similar to being Norse or Germanic). Therefore, a person of Hispanic descent is typically defined using both race and ethnicity as an identifier—i.e., Black-Hispanic, White-Hispanic, Asian-Hispanic, Amerindian-Hispanic or "other race" Hispanic."
For Texas, if you don't take into account Hispanic ethnicity when looking at the data, whites are 70.4%. If you do, then it's 45.3% The devil's in the details on this one, and I was referring to the 70.4% when I said "dominated." My bad on that one, I should have been more clear.
But the point was, race is usually at the forefront of
admissions issues at UT, politics, protests, and pretty much anything that race conceivably
could be a factor in.
Edited, Nov 19th 2013 2:36pm by IDrownFish