Costumed kids on the Adelitas de Colorado float at Denver’s annual Cinco de Mayo parade in 2023. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
Colorado’s Latino population grew 77 percent in the past quarter-century, trailing the national growth rate, which doubled over the same time period, according to a new Pew Research Center report. The DC-based think tank found that between 2000 and 2024, Colorado’s Latino population climbed from 736,000 to 1.3 million now.
“I guess we are 20 percent of the population now,” said Nicki Gonzales, History professor and vice provost at Regis University and former Colorado state historian. The US population of Latinos in 2000 was just above 35 million people…