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As of 2015, there were ~46million people who identify as black in America. If you assume your figure of 12%, that means 1 in 10 people identifies as black. I w

As of 2015, there were ~46million people who identify as black in America. If you assume your figure of 12%, that means 1 in 10 people identifies as black. I would not consider that "very rare." As of 2015, there are ~20 million Asians in America. It would be weird for me to agree with the statement that asians are "very rare." http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/p...

jackmott 10y ago
The guy you are replying to specifically mentioned that a lot of that 12% are concentrated in the south, and thus in some places black people are very rare. such as Oregon, only ~2% Montana - ~0.6% etc
dragonwriter 10y ago
> If you assume your figure of 12%, that means 1 in 10 people identifies as black. Closer to 1 in 8, actually. But that's nationally -- the US is a big nation with lots of regional (both large- and small-scale) variation. Its under 7% for California (and SF is pretty close to the statewide ratio, though neighboring Oakland is close to 30%.)
douche 10y ago
America is a very big place, and incredibly diverse. This diversity expands to being both very diverse in places and completely mono-cultural in others. Some areas are heavily black, some areas are heavily Hispanic, some are enclaves of immigrants from any number of other places, and some are almost completely lily-white. Anecdotally, growing up, there were a half-dozen Hispanic kids (who were my cousins, as my great-uncle had married in Arizona when he was in the Army), one (adopted) black child, and one other (adopted) Indian child. That was the sum total of the ethnic diversity in the entire thousand-person school district in one backwards corner of Maine. We had to rib on the French-Canadians and fall back on home-town stereotypes... There were actually more Asians around, because the Boston Chinese food restaurant cartels/mafia expanded northward. I never met anyone who was Jewish until I went to college.
drumdance 10y ago
It may be 12% overall, but it's obvious to anyone that downtown Seattle looks nothing like downtown Atlanta. My high school (small town in Georgia) was ~30% black. Which of course was fine with me. I had lots of black classmates from first grade on. When I got to college in Chicago, though, I was surprised that for most of my fellow students' high schools, black people numbered in the single digits.

jackmott 10y ago

The guy you are replying to specifically mentioned that a lot of that 12% are concentrated in the south, and thus in some places black people are very rare. such as Oregon, only ~2% Montana - ~0.6% etc

dragonwriter 10y ago

> If you assume your figure of 12%, that means 1 in 10 people identifies as black. Closer to 1 in 8, actually. But that's nationally -- the US is a big nation with lots of regional (both large- and small-scale) variation. Its under 7% for California (and SF is pretty close to the statewide ratio, though neighboring Oakland is close to 30%.)

douche 10y ago

America is a very big place, and incredibly diverse. This diversity expands to being both very diverse in places and completely mono-cultural in others. Some areas are heavily black, some areas are heavily Hispanic, some are enclaves of immigrants from any number of other places, and some are almost completely lily-white. Anecdotally, growing up, there were a half-dozen Hispanic kids (who were my cousins, as my great-uncle had married in Arizona when he was in the Army), one (adopted) black child, and one other (adopted) Indian child. That was the sum total of the ethnic diversity in the entire thousand-person school district in one backwards corner of Maine. We had to rib on the French-Canadians and fall back on home-town stereotypes... There were actually more Asians around, because the Boston Chinese food restaurant cartels/mafia expanded northward. I never met anyone who was Jewish until I went to college.

drumdance 10y ago

It may be 12% overall, but it's obvious to anyone that downtown Seattle looks nothing like downtown Atlanta. My high school (small town in Georgia) was ~30% black. Which of course was fine with me. I had lots of black classmates from first grade on. When I got to college in Chicago, though, I was surprised that for most of my fellow students' high schools, black people numbered in the single digits.