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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.
Mar 25, 2021 · The U.S. Black population is also growing. In 2019, 46.8 million people in the U.S. identified their race as Black, either alone or as part of a multiracial or ethnic background. That is up from 36.2 million in 2000. 1 The Black share of the U.S. population is higher today than in 2000 as well.
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 ...
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 ...
Jan 16, 2023 · Imani Perry says the South can be seen as an "origin point" for the way the nation operates. Her book South to America traces the steps of an enslaved ancestor. Originally broadcast Jan. 25, 2022.
Feb 17, 2017 · During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today. CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Growing up here in the 1940s and 1950s, Sevone Rhynes experienced ...
Jun 28, 2021 · As the US has become more diverse, it has also become more racially segregated, a new study finds. Its lead author, Stephen Menendian, speaks about America’s failure to integrate
