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Texas gained more people than any other state between July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009 (478,000), followed by California (381,000), North Carolina (134,000), Georgia (131,000) and Florida (114,000), according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

There’s no doubt, as was pointed out in a recent analysis of Hispanic news stories, that a Puerto Rican was the Hispanic highlight of 2009–Sonia Sotomayor. But if we can point to one Latin nationality that has been making their presence very well known in American culture, it has to be our Dominican brethren.

Sure we’ve had a Dominican make a huge splash in the world of fashion (De Le Renta for those of you who are dominicano-challenged) and Dominican power has certainly been felt on American baseball diamonds. But 2009 has shown us how far Dominicans have established themselves on the American cultural and entertainment scene–music, film, TV.

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From 2006 to 2008, internet use among Latino adults rose by 10 percentage points, from 54% to 64%. In comparison, the rates for whites rose four percentage points, and the rates for blacks rose only two percentage points during that time period. Though Latinos continue to lag behind whites, the gap in internet use has shrunk considerably. Download report here.

Garcia Research and Santiago ROI launched LATINOMICS, The Hispanic Market Index, an ongoing tracking service to monitor consumer sentiment, economic activity, political perspectives and other issues of the day within the burgeoning US Hispanic community.

A North American snapshot of Nielsen’s Global Economic Current finds the U.S. and Canada with improving consumer confidence, but still hampered by timid spending. Download report HERE.

In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind, the Facebook Data team recently sought to answer the question, “How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook?”