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New-Work-139 OP t1_j8jkzjq wrote

Reply to comment by Mainah888 in Biggest Minority By State by New-Work-139

Mixed race. It’s a legitimate term for a person who identifies racially as multiple races. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/fedreg_race-ethnicity

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Mainah888 t1_j8jm2a1 wrote

I'm aware, but what races?

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justlikethewwdove t1_j8k69tj wrote

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/maine-population-change-between-census-decade.html

There's no elegant breakdown of the data but the best way to get a sense of it is by choosing the "[race] in combination" drop down at the Census link above for each race/ethnicity. The two largest non-white ones reported with others are Native at almost 2% and Black at about 1%. Total mixed is 4.7% and white in combo is 4.6% which means the vast majority of mixed are white and something else -- makes sense given Northern New England has been the whitest part of the country for a very long time.

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meowmix778 t1_j8jph2v wrote

More than two.

I'm half white and half puerto rican. I'm mixed. My best friend is half black and half vietnamese. He is mixed.

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fridaycat t1_j8k7oco wrote

Puerto Rican is not a race. It is an ethnicity.

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Mainah888 t1_j8jss69 wrote

No shit. Jesus.

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sharklar t1_j8kgh5o wrote

Ouch , don't let em hate . I get what you're saying. And honestly people from the Caribbean and all of Central and South America are perhaps the most mixed because of Europeans taking what they wanted.

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