High concentrations of Black residents are prevalent in many northern urban counties and, together with other nonwhite groups, in parts of the West. Fully 58% of the nation’s Black population resides in the South. Asian American residents, often with other nonwhite groups, are highly represented in California, Washington, Texas, portions of the Southeast, large metropolitan areas, and small towns in all parts of the country.īlack Americans are highly represented in southern counties. Latino or Hispanic residents are highly represented in a broad range of counties from California to Texas, as well as parts of the Mountain West, the Southeast, urbanized parts of the North, and many smaller places in the nation’s interior. (The statistics for each county are available interactively by clicking areas on the map.) In these, Latino or Hispanic, Asian American, and Black populations constitute larger percentages of the county population than they do nationally. Harris County, Texas Gwinnett County, Ga. 3Įspecially notable are counties such as Queens County, N.Y. 2 Also depicted are counties where two or more nonwhite groups or persons who identify with two or more groups are highly represented. Map 1 depicts counties where each of these groups (as well as American Indians and Alaska natives) are “highly represented”-defined here as comprising a higher share of a county’s total population than for the nation as a whole.
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