The demographics of Hispanic and Latino Americans depict a population that is the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, is much younger than the rest of the country, less educated, less wealthy, with a very large immigrant component, of no less than two dozen national origins and of every race, with a longer life expectancy than their fellow Americans, and geographically concentrated in the southwestern United States.
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