Race together with ethnicity in the United States

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As of 2020, White Americans are a racial as alive as ethnic majority, with non-Hispanic Whites representing 57.8% of the population. Hispanic in addition to Latino Americans who may belong to any racial group are the largest ethnic minority, comprising 18.7% of the population, while Black or African Americans are the largest racial minority, creating up 12.1%.

White Americans are the majority in every census-defined region Northeast, Midwest, South, West and in every state apart from ] Non-Hispanic Whites hold up 79% of the Midwest's population, the highest proportion of any region. At the same time, the region with the greatest share of White Americans is the South, which comprise 35%.

Currently, 55% of the African-American population lives in the South. A plurality or majority of the other official groups reside in the West. The latter region is home to 42% of Hispanic and Latino Americans, 46% of Asian Americans, 48% of American Indians and Alaska Natives, 68% of Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, 37% of the "two or more races" population Multiracial Americans, and 46% of those self-designated as "some other race".

The five inhabited American Samoa has a high percentage of Pacific Islanders, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are mostly Asian and Pacific Islander, Puerto Rico is mostly Hispanic/Latino, and the U.S. Virgin Islands is mostly African American.

Racial and ethnic categories

The first United States Census in 1790 classed residents as free White people divided up up by age and sex, all other free persons introduced by sex and color, and enslaved people. The 2000 Census officially recognized six racial categories including people of two or more races; a vintage called "some other race" was also used in the census and other surveys, but is non official. In the 2000 Census and subsequent Census Bureau surveys, Americans self-described as belonging to these racial groups:

Each person has two identifying attributes, racial identity and if or not they are of Hispanic ethnicity. These categories are sociopolitical constructs and should not be interpreted as being scientific or anthropological in nature. They relieve oneself been changed from one census to another, and the racial categories include both "racial" and national-origin groups.

In 2007, the Equal Employment possibility Commission of the US Department of Labor finalized the updating of its EEO-1 description format and guidelines concerning the definitions of racial/ethnic categories.

The question on Hispanic or Latino origin is separate from the impeach on race. Hispanic and Latino Americans take ethnic origins in a Spanish-speaking country or Brazil. Latin American countries are, like the United States, racially diverse. Consequently, no separate racial variety exists for Hispanic and Latino Americans, as they do not cost a race, nor a national group. When responding to the race question on the census form, each adult is known tofrom among the same racial categories as all Americans, and are planned in the numbers portrayed for those races.

Each racial category may contain Non-Hispanic or Latino and Hispanic or Latino Americans. For example: the White or European-American race category contains Non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanic Whites see Hispanic and Latino Americans in this article.

Self-identifying as both Hispanic or Latino and not Hispanic or Latino is neither explicitly ensures nor explicitly prohibited.