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The latest Census Bureau data released last week shows the United States grew more racially diverse over the past decade — a change driven in part by an increase in the multiracial population and the growing number of Hispanic or Latino residents in Southern states including Florida and Texas. Initial data released in May had already shown ...
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- Where racial minority groups are highly represented. The new estimates indicate that, for the nation as a whole, Hispanic residents comprise 18.3% of the population.
- Large metro areas are especially diverse. Large metropolitan areas have historically been the nexus of minority settlement in the United States, serving as destinations for immigrants, black migration to urban areas, and, more recently, for Hispanic and Asian Americans.
- New Hispanic and Asian destinations. Hispanics and Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial minority groups nationally, increasing by 18.6% and 27.4%, respectively, from 2010 to 2018.
- New destinations for black Americans. The most notable shift for black Americans in recent decades has been a reversal from the historical Great Migration to traditional northern and West Coast destination areas, to a return to the South.
America is becoming more racially diverse. And in a growing number of counties, whites are no longer the majority. Some have greeted these changing demographics with fear, others have embraced it.
Oct 20, 2022 · The South is a place where there’s a lot of concentrated vulnerability, but also a place of some of the most extraordinary culture and imaginings [and dreams of freedom]. The book is a combination of an argument about our national identity and also a love letter to the region. Q: In your book, you describe ways that people in the United ...
Mar 26, 2022 · GAILLARD: I mean, there are other ways to look at it, too, but the South has always played a very significant role in the history of the country. I mean, our first presidents were from the South.
- Debbie Elliott
Sep 21, 2021 · The 2020 census results have made clear that America’s “diversity explosion” is continuing, now with an absolute decline in the white population. Yet the country’s racial and ethnic ...
Mar 25, 2011 · Reasons Behind the Change. In 1900, 90 percent of blacks lived in the South, but that number plummeted to roughly 50 percent during the Great Migration, when black people fled the region's brutal ...
