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This is a list of the 50 U.S. states, the 5 populated U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia by race/ethnicity. It includes a sortable table of population by race /ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.
There are also enormous racial gaps in education and health. Only 24% of Native American adults have a college degree compared to 47% of white adults and there is a similar gap in college enrollments.
The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.
Protest sign at a housing project in Detroit, 1942. Ghettos in the United States are typically urban neighborhoods perceived as being high in crime and poverty. The origins of these areas are specific to the United States and its laws, which created ghettos through both legislation and private efforts to segregate America for political, economic, social, and ideological reasons: de jure [1 ...
Long Island, N.Y., remains one of the 10 most segregated places in America.
The divided states of America: Florida, California, and the future of political polarization. Noah Bierman. November 17, 2022 at 7:14 AM ... You can get TurboTax for 30% off on Amazon today. AOL.
Large racial differentials in wealth remain in the United States: between whites and African Americans, the gap is a factor of twenty. [113] An analyst of the phenomenon, Thomas Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University argues, "The wealth gap is not just a story of merit and achievement, it's also a story of the ...
After the Civil War, the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to the formerly enslaved in 1868, but in 1896 the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that racial segregation was constitutional.