An interesting, counter-intuitive map of the 2010 federal census. Counter-intuitive because a) it shows most Americans are white (despite news media emphasis and fact that most advertising features black models and out-of-work black actors); b) blacks still live mainly in the South; and c) there’s still lots of empty space in the West. Click to biggerize.
I suppose had the millions of Hispanic illegals been counted, there’d be more orange than there is, but what orange there is shows that most of the legal Hispanics still reside in Texas, New Mexico and southern California. Not sure why Alaska and Hawaii were left out. They’d certainly have a lot of brown and red.
UPDATE: James Taranto on the blacks in the South phenom: “Now, why would blacks move out of big cities in the Northeast, the Midwest and California and into the South and the suburbs? In part for the same reasons nonblacks do: in search of better economic opportunities and quality of life. But also because the factor that drove blacks in particular to leave the South no longer exists. Jim Crow is now long dead, but it had been dead a decade at most by the time the New Great Migration began.”
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