The Los Angeles Times reports on a new Asian market in suburban Orange County, a store that sspires to be a "hybrid of cultures" serving wealthier second-generation Asian Americans. The goal, manager Thomas Yoon said, is to become an Asian Whole Foods Market. From the Times:

You know the saying. As California goes, so goes the nation. Eventually. We knew it would happen. But a section of the state budget report released by California Gov. Jerry Brown’s office last week made it clear.

Time magazine has a compelling feature about the new, wealthy Mexican immigrants in Texas, and how their money is changing the state.

You may have heard that the birthrate in the United States is on the decline. It's true. But if you listen to pundits who insist that Latino families, and particularly Mexican immigrants, keep churning out babies, now you can respond with some real statistics: Latinas are having smaller families too.