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A majority-minority or minority-majority area is a term used in American English to refer to a sub-national jurisdiction in which one or more racial and/or ethnic minorities (relative to the whole country's population) make up a majority of the population. The term first appeared in this context in 1978, possibly even earlier.[1]

Outside the United States, terms like ethnic enclave are more commonly used.

United States of America

Main article: Historical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States
U.S. states and districts in which non-Hispanic whites:
Red: Currently are a minority or plurality
Pink: Currently are less than 60% of the population
Green: Were formerly a minority or plurality

In the United States of America majority-minority or minority-majority area is a United States state or jurisdiction whose population is composed of less than 50% non-Hispanic whites. Racial data is derived from self-identification questions on the U.S. Census and on U.S. Census Bureau estimates. (See Race in the United States Census).

  • Four states are majority-minority as of 2010: Hawaii (which is the only state that has never had a white majority), New Mexico, California, and Texas.[2]
  • The District of Columbia reached a majority black status during the latter stages of the Great Migration. Although the district is still majority-minority, blacks now make up only 50% of the population; increases have been among minorities classified as Asians and Hispanics. Whites have also moved into the district in increasing number since the turn of the 21st century.[3]
  • The percentage of non-Hispanic white residents has fallen below 60% in Maryland, Georgia, Nevada, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
  • All populated United States territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) are majority-minority areas, and they never had a non-Hispanic white majority.
  • 13 of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. are majority-minority. An additional seven have a non-Hispanic white population below 60%. So half of the top 40 metros have a white population below 60%.
  • As of 2011, 11% of U.S. counties are now majority-minority. Another 7% are near the tipping point and are predicted to become majority-minority soon.[4]
  • The whole United States of America is projected to become majority-minority in 2043.[5] With alternate immigration scenarios, the whole U.S. is projected to become majority-minority sometime between 2041 and 2046 (depending on the amount of net immigration into the U.S. over the next 35 years).[6][7]
  • Minority children will be the majority in the entire United States by 2019.[8]
  • Minority children are now the majority in the following ten states: California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Maryland.[9]

States

From colonial times to the early 20th century, much of the Lower South had a black majority. Three Southern states had populations that were majority black: Louisiana (until about 1890[10]), South Carolina (until the 1920s[11]) and Mississippi (from the 1830s to the 1930s[12]). In the same period, close to but just below the 50% level of black populations were Georgia,[13] Alabama,[14] and Florida,[15] while Maryland,[16] North Carolina,[17] and Virginia[18] had black populations approaching or exceeding 40%. Texas' black population have reached to 30%. [19]

These states changed markedly from the 1890s through the 1950s, as two waves of the Great Migration led more than 6.5 million blacks to abandon the economically depressed, legally segregated Deep South in search of better job opportunities and living conditions, first in Northern and Midwestern industrial cities, and later west to California. One-fifth of Florida's black population had left the state by 1940, for instance.[20] During the last 30 years of the 20th century into the 21st century, scholars have documented a reverse New Great Migration of blacks back to southern states, but typically those of the New South, which have the best jobs and developing economies.[21]

The District of Columbia, one of the magnets for Great Migration blacks, was long the sole majority-minority federal jurisdiction in the continental U.S. The black proportion has declined since the 1990s due to gentrification and expanding opportunities, with many blacks moving to suburban Maryland and others migrating to jobs in states of the New South in a reverse of the Great Migration.[21] In 2011, the black population represented 50% of the population, a considerable decline since 75% in the late 1970s.

Since 1965, foreign immigration has spurred the proliferation of majority-minority areas, most notably in California,[22] whose legal resident population was 89.5% 'non-Hispanic white' in the 1940s, but which was estimated at 39.0% 'non-Hispanic white' in 2013.

Cities

Many cities in the United States became majority-minority by 2010.[23] Out of the cities that had a peak population of 500,000 or more before 1990, the cities now classified as majority-minority include Phoenix,[24] Los Angeles, San Diego,[25] San Francisco, San Jose, Washington D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, Boston,[26] Detroit, St. Louis,[27] Buffalo,[28] New York City, Tampa, Cincinnati,[29] Cleveland, Philadelphia,[30] Milwaukee,[31] New Orleans, Charlotte, Memphis, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio.[23][32]

Data collection

The first data for New Mexico was a 5% sample in 1940 which estimated non-Hispanic whites at 50.9%.[33] Hispanics do not constitute a race but an ethnic and cultural group: of respondents who listed Hispanic origin, some listed White race, roughly half gave responses tabulated under "Some other race" (e.g. giving a national origin such as "Mexican" or a designation such as "Mestizo" as race), and much smaller numbers listed Black, Native American, or Asian race.

In U.S. censuses since 1990, self-identification has been the primary way to identify race. Presumption of race based on countries or regions given in the ancestry question is used only when a respondent has answered the ancestry question but not the race question. The U.S. Census currently defines "white people" very broadly as "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa,[34] i.e. Caucasoids. This definition has changed through the years.

Although the Census attempts to enumerate both citizens and non-citizens, the illegal immigrant population of the United States has proven hard to quantify; the census uses a 12 million base estimate nationally. However, current estimates based on national surveys, administrative data and other sources of information indicate that the current population may range as high as 20 to 30 million.[35]

Maps and graphs

Area White (all) Non-Hispanic White Asian American African American Hispanic or Latino American Native American Native Hawaiian Two or more races
California 57.6% 40.1% 13.0% 6.2% 37.6% 1.0% 0.4% 4.9%
Hawaii 24.7% 22.7% 38.6% 1.6% 8.9% 0.3% 10.0% 23.6%
New Mexico 68.4% 40.5% 1.4% 2.1% 46.3% 9.4% 0.1% 3.7%
Texas 70.4% 45.3% 3.8% 11.8% 37.6% 0.7% 0.1% 2.7%
District of Columbia 99% 34.8% 3.5% 50.7% 9.1% 0.3% 0.1% 2.9%
United States 72.4% 63.7% 4.8% 12.6% 16.3% 0.9% 0.2% 2.9%

SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 (for the year 2000)

Other uses

See also: Religion in the United States and Hawaii § Religion

Normally, a state is considered to be majority-minority because of its ethnic/racial makeup, but other criteria is occasionally used, such as religion, disability, or age. For example, the majority of Utah residents are Mormons, a Christian denomination that is a religious minority throughout the rest of the United States. In addition to Utah, Rhode Island and Louisiana, which have Roman Catholic majorities, are the only states in the U.S. where a single denomination constitutes a majority of the population. However, no U.S. state has a majority composed of any non-Christian group, except for Hawaii, where 51.1% of the population follow religions that would be non-mainstream in the rest of the United States. Hawaii is classified as religious majority of Unaffiliated, including agnostics, atheists, humanists, the Irreligious, and Secularists (non-practicing).

International applications

While the concept exists in other nations, the exact term differs from place to place and language to language.

In many large, contiguous countries like China, there are many autonomous regions where a minority population is the majority. These regions are generally the result of historical population distributions, not because of recent immigration or recent differences in birth and fertility rates between various groups.

English-speaking countries

Canada

  • Unlike the United States where there are four (4) minority-majority states, none of the Canadian provinces is minority-majority. It must be noted that the definition of a minority differs between US and Canada, since, whereas in the US this term includes anyone who is either not white or who is Hispanic (Hispanic whites are considered as minority), in Canada it is defined (by the Employment Equity Act, used by Statistics Canada) as "persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." Thus, (a) Aboriginals are considered majority, (b) Hispanic whites are considered majority, but (c) non-white Arabs and West Asians are considered minority, even if Caucasian in race. However, the numbers are not close, so this difference does not bear any practical significance except for the territory of Nunavut, which would be minority-majority if the US-style definition of racial minority were to be applied (24,875 of 29,325 residents are Inuit).
  • The province with the highest proportion of visible minorities (2006 Census) in British Columbia (24.8%), followed by Ontario (22.8%). This means that in no Canadian province has the percentage of the racial majority (Aboriginals + White Caucasians) yet fallen under 75%.
  • No census metropolitan area (CMA) is minority-majority yet. However, Toronto and Vancouver CMAs are on the tip of becoming such; in particular, according to the 2006 Census, the Toronto CMA has 42.9% of visible minorites, while the Vancouver CMA has 41.7% of visible minorities. These are the only metropolitan areas in Canada where the percentage of the racial majority has fallen under 60%. Taking into account the 20 largest census metropolitan areas, Calgary comes a distant third with 22.2%.
  • Racial or "visible minorities" (as they are known in Canada) are the majority in Vancouver proper and are expected to become the majority in the City of Toronto by 2016 or 2017.
  • The Toronto district of Scarborough has a population made up of 67.4% visible minorities; all but one of the ten Scarborough wards are visible-minority-majority, of which, in particular, Scarborough-Agincourt and Scarborough-Rouge River are Chinese-majority (53.4% and 57.3% respectively; 83.7% and 87.8% respectively for all visible minorities). Likewise, 19 of 25 Scarborough neighbourhoods (as designated by the City of Toronto) are visible-minority-majority. For purposes of contradistinction, in the "Old" (pre-amalgamation) City of Toronto, 68% of the population are white Caucasian (or Aboriginal) and the visible-minority-majority neighbourhoods are five in a total of 44 neighbourhoods (Regent Park, North St. James Town, Bay Street Corridor, Kensington-Chinatown, and Parkdale).
  • The Toronto suburbs of Markham (65.4%) and Brampton (66.4%) also have a minority-majority population, of primarily Chinese and East Indian ethnic origin respectively.
  • The Vancouver suburbs of Richmond (65.1%) and Burnaby (54.1%) also have a minority-majority population, of primarily Chinese ethnic origin in both cases.
  • The French linguistic minority is the majority in the province of Quebec (79.0% have French as their mother tongue, according to the 2006 Census), and has been since before Canadian Confederation.
  • The province of Saskatchewan may also have an Aboriginal majority by 2050, according to some research.[36]
  • Regarding religion (2001 Census data), Quebec and New Brunswick have a Roman Catholic majority, while Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunavut have a Protestant majority. In the other provinces and territories, no denomination exceeds the 50% mark; however, Protestants are the largest denomination first in all provinces and territories except only Prince Edward Island and Northwest Territories where Catholics are the largest denomination. No other Christian denomination, other religion, or lack of religious affiliation os first or second in any province or territory.

Visible Minority Majorities in different Canadian municipalities: British Columbia

Ontario

The Muslim population in various parts of India in 2011.

Fiji

  • Fiji did not have any racial or ethnic group comprise a majority from the 1930s to the 1990s, with the exception of the 1960s and possibly early 1970s.[37]

India

South Africa

Whites as a percentage of the population in various parts of South Africa in 2011.
Brazilian states according to the percentage of Whites in 2009.

United Kingdom

Brazil

   – States with high or strong White proportion.
   – Brazilian states with high or strong Pardo proportion.

Brazil has officially become a majority "non-white" country as of the 2010 census,[39] together with the federative units of Goiás, Federal District, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo.

Those identifying as white declined to 47.7 percent (about 91 million people) in 2010 census from 52.9 percent (about 93 million people) in 2000 in the entire country.[39] However, in Brazil, this is not simply a matter of origin and birthrate, but identity changes as well. The black minority, whose women have more children in average than the pardo minority, did not enlarge its representation in the population to more than 1.5% in the period, while it was mostly the growth in the number of pardo people (~38% in 2000, 42.4% in 2010) that caused the demographic plurality of Brazil.

However, a process similar to that of the United States is indeed happening in Brazil, for a longer amount of time but at a much slower pace. See White Brazilian#By state.

Bulgaria

The green areas have a Turkish majority or plurality, while the pink and light red areas have a Bulgarian plurality but not a Bulgarian majority.
Map of Arab population, 2000

Israel

  • Arabs are a majority of the population in Israel's Northern District and in several natural regions in other parts of Israel.[41]
  • Non-Haredi Jews are projected to become a minority of Israel's total population by 2059.[42][43]

Romania

The non-purple areas have a plurality or majority of an ethnic group besides Romanians.

Slovakia

(Former) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Ethnic Russians as a percentage of the population by region in 2010.
Ethnic composition of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991.

Abkhazia (Georgia)

  • No ethnic group composed a majority of the population in Abkhazia from at least 2003 until around 2011.[46][47]

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Estonia

Georgia

Kazakhstan

  • The Kazakh SSR did not have any ethnic group/nationality comprise a majority between the 1930s and the collapse of the USSR.[53][54] Some regions of Kazakhstan still do not have a Kazakh majority today, though.[55][56]

Kyrgyzstan

  • The Kirgiz SSR did not have any ethnic group/nationality comprise a majority between the 1940s or 1950s until the 1980s.[53]

Latvia

  • The Latvian SSR almost became minority-majority (the ethnic Latvian population there decreased from 62% to 52% between 1959 and 1989), but the collapse of the USSR prevented this from happening.[53][57][58][59] While the whole Latvian SSR never became majority-minority, the eight largest cities there did become majority-minority by 1989.[60]

Russia

The Soviet Union as a whole

  • There were concerns that the whole Soviet Union would lose its ethnic Russian majority due to the high birth rates in the Caucasus and Central Asia as early as 1970.[62] The percentage of Russians among the whole Soviet population was consistently declining, from 55% in 1959 to 51% in 1989.[53] However, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, before ethnic Russians could have lost their majority among the total Soviet population.

Transnistria (Moldova)

  • Transnistria did not have any ethnic group compromise a majority of its population in 2004.[63]

Ukraine

(Former) Yugoslavia

The municipalities with a color other than light blue have a plurality or majority composed of an ethnic group other than Serbs.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina did not have any ethnic group comprise a majority of its population at the time of the last census in 1991 (which took place before the Bosnian War).[65] A census was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in October of 2013, and these results also showed that no majority population exists in the state, with the largest ethnic group being Bosniaks, who constitute 48.4% of the population.

Kosovo

Macedonia

Montenegro

  • Montenegro does not have any ethnic group compromise a majority of its population.[68]

Serbia

See also

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