Hispanics now outnumber Native Americans in state

Oklahoma is likely to maintain the nation’s largest per capita population of Native Americans, but the numbers released Tuesday show that the number of Hispanics in the state has nearly doubled in the last decade.
Hispanics now make up 9 percent of the state’s 3.75 million residents. Native Americans represent 8.5 percent of the population.
Oklahoma is home to dozens of sovereign tribes. But Hispanics have supplanted Native Americans as the state’s largest minority primarily because of an abundance of jobs in farming, ranching, swine and poultry operations.