New stats on the racial, age distribution of the US
Latinos and Blacks now both comprise roughly 13% of the US population according to this San Francisco Chronicle story. Whether Latinos now surpass blacks is a matter of how you interpret the numbers since the country's population doesn't always fit into neat little boxes on a form:
Latinos have become the nation's largest minority group. Or do African Americans still hold that position? It depends on how you look at the numbers, released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
...Also Tuesday, the Census Bureau released population estimates broken down by age. It found that the median age of the U.S. population -- the point at which half the population is younger and the other half older -- rose from 35. 3 to 35.6.