Steve Murdock Quotations

It's a clear need that our non-Anglo students be competitive.

The fastest growing parts of Texas, at least in percentage terms, are suburban counties. Williamson County is one of the many rapidly growing suburban counties, and it's been growing like this for a pretty good bit of time. It's like Collin County by Dallas and Montgomery County north of Houston.

Part of what's really extraordinary about that is Hispanics have been a large part of culture forever. Many of them were here before the Anglos were.

If I were to list the power structure of the top 25 people in San Antonio, it would certainly not reflect the proportions of the population. There would be more Anglos than there would be others.

Are they likely to change the (overall) crime rate in Texas? Not really. ... Will it change the directions and patterns in Texas? I doubt it.

If you don't change these differences, you're going to have a poorer and less competitive state. Whatever the source of the Hispanic population is, they are clearly the future force of the Texas population.

There's something very symbolic here. Fifty-percent crossover, for whatever reason, has really impacted some people on the fringes.

Immigrants, whether you're looking at Irish and Germans 200 years ago or Hispanics today, come in with relatively low levels of education and they take relatively low-level jobs.

If you look in the 1990s, in every one of the 50 states, non-Anglo Hispanic populations grew faster than Anglo populations. It's a very pervasive pattern.

If you're wondering what the USA that your children or grandchildren depending on your age will look like, all you need to do is look around because in a very real sense, the Texas of today is the USA of tomorrow.