Majority-minority state

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Map of affected states:
  • States where minorities make up the majority of the population
  • States where non-Hispanic whites currently make up less than 60% of the population
  • States where minorities made up the majority of the population in the past

    • A majority minority state in the United States is a state in which racial and / or ethnic minorities, such as people of Latin American descent, better known as Hispanics or Latinos , or African Americans, make up the majority of the population. This term was used in this context as early as 1978 or before.

    The following states are called majority-minority states and result in the following demographic values ​​(as of 2000):

    Area Whites overall White non- "Hispanics" ("Caucasians") Asians African American Hispanics Native American people Native Hawaiian people Two or more races
    (mixed race)
    California 57.6% 40.1% 13.0% 6.2% 37.6% 1.0% 0.4% 4.9%
    Hawaii 24.7% 22.7% 38.6% 1.6% 8.9% 0.3% 10.0% 23.6%
    New Mexico 68.4% 40.5% 1.4% 2.1% 46.3% 9.4% 0.1% 3.7%
    Texas 70.4% 45.3% 3.8% 11.8% 37.6% 0.7% 0.1% 2.7%
    Washington, DC 38.5% 34.8% 3.5% 50.7% 9.1% 0.3% 0.1% 2.9%
    United States as a whole 72.4% 63.7% 4.8% 12.6% 16.3% 0.9% 0.2% 2.9%

    Nevada has also been a majority-minority state since 2016 .

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    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ online-translator.com
    2. ↑ US Census Bureau, 2005 (for 2000)
    3. ↑ US whites will soon be the minority in number, but not power. In: The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved January 21, 2018 .