Napa is on track to become the Bay Area's first majority Latino county, and a new study shows officials here may not be prepared to deal effectively with the changing demographic.
The Profile of Immigrants in Napa County, a Migration Policy Institute study on immigration's impact on the region, was commissioned by the Napa Valley Community Foundation. It's meant to engender "civil" discourse on the issues, and hopefully result in "better public policies," study author Randy Capps said.
The study found that even as the county's Latino population (and, in American Canyon, the Filipino population) grows, the native born white population is aging and shrinking.
"The extent of it surprised me," Capps said. "Native born whites are growing older and not being replaced. Napa County will continue to need to import workers. It's a national trend, based on the aging of the Baby Boom generation." READ MORE
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