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Editor’s note: This is one of two stories that look at how
Census numbers depict Colorado. By Burt Hubbard and Ann Carnahan
Espinola By some of the most important measures of social
progress, black and Latino residents of Colorado have lost
ground compared with white residents in the decades since the
civil-rights movement. Minority gains made during the 1960s and
1970s have eroded with time, an I-News Network analysis of six
decades of demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau found.
In other categories, the gaps between whites and minorities have
steadily widened since 1960. The analysis focused on family
income, poverty rates, high school and college graduation and
homeownership. Health data and justice records examined also
revealed disparities. Similar racial and ethnic inequities
appear nationwide. But one glaring fact about Colorado is that
it went from a state that was by most measures more equitable
than the national average in the firs