WASHINGTON (CBS) -- The U.S. Census Bureau says one out of every six Americans is Hispanic. The bureau released its first set of national findings from its 2010 count Thursday in Washington. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said the census found that the United States is becoming racially and ethnically more diverse.
Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's Racial Statistics Branch, said the Hispanic population crossed the 50 million mark last year, making Hispanics the second largest ethnic group in the country, with 16 percent of the total population.
At the news conference, Groves also announced that the new center of the U.S. population is in Missouri, about 2.7 miles northeast of the small town of Plato. It is the fourth Missouri town to hold this distinction. Groves said Plato has a population of 109 people.
(Source: CBS Newspath)