- WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The black
population of the United States grew almost three times as fast as the
white populace in the decade of the 1990s, according to U.S. Census reports
released Monday.
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- Whites remain the largest racial group in the country,
but blacks increased 16 percent from 1990 to 2000 -- faster than the total
U.S. population, which grew 13 percent.
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- The white population increased only 6 percent.
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- In 2000, 211 million people reported themselves as "white
alone," accounting for 75 percent of the U.S. population. Those who
reported themselves as "black only" numbered 35 million people,
or 12 percent of the population.
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- An additional 2 million people said they were black and
at least one other race. Within this group, the most common racial combination
was black and white, making up 45 percent of the pairings.
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- The majority of whites live in the South and the Midwest.
More than half of them live in 10 states: California, Texas, New York,
Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and North Carolina.
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- The majority of blacks -- about 19 million -- live in
the South, an increase of 3 million people since 1990. All 10 states in
the South had black populations of more than 1 million each.
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- It is New York, however, that has the largest number
of blacks -- making up 3 million of its residents.
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- "We expected the numbers in the South to be high
because that has been a general trend over the years," said Jesse
McKinnon of the U.S. Census Bureau. "Blacks tended to reside in the
South at least over the last 30 or 40 years.
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- The regions with the highest percentage of whites are
the Midwest with 84 percent and the Northeast with 78 percent.
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- The percentage of whites in all regions dropped slightly
in the 1990s -- 5 percent in the Northeast, 3 percent in the Midwest, 4
percent in the South, and 7 percent in the West.
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- Among places with populations of 100,000 or more, Livonia,
Michigan, has the highest proportion of whites. They make up 97 percent
of the residents.
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- Gary, Indiana, has the highest percentage of blacks at
85 percent, followed by Detroit with 83 percent.
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- "Gary, Indiana has consistently been at the top
in terms of the proportion where blacks are concentrated," McKinnon
said.
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- New York City has the largest number of both whites and
blacks -- 4 million and 2 million respectively.
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- Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, each has white populations
of between 1 million and 2 million people.
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- After New York, Chicago has the largest number of blacks
-- 1 million. It is followed by Detroit with 775,000 and Philadelphia with
655,000.
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