Hey welcome back to the world according to Briggs, I'm Briggs and today we're
gonna tackle a tough list that I get asked about all the time
diversity what states what cities are the most diverse the United States is a
melting pot ever since the first Native Americans saw sailing ship on the
horizon and thought to themselves oh look visitors we should have them over
for dinner I'm sure they're fine they're just visiting they'll be on their way
soon to today when it's a hot-button political issue diversity is more than
just racial differences it reflects a populations mix of not just races but
also cultures religion economic status and other characteristics if you're
looking for a new place to live it might be important to you if the state has a
good amount of diversity a diverse state can offer you many things many
opportunities experience different food people cultures music and very colorful
parades in some cases wallet hub did some research and ranked all 50 states
from first being the best of 50 being the worst in different categories
related to diversity I jumped on the US Census website and got some more data
wallet hub ranked diversity in five categories socio-economic diversity
cultural diversity economic diversity household diversity and religious
diversity so if your what states have the least diversity you're probably
gonna have to start with number 10 Wyoming Wyoming was admitted into the
Union on July 10th 1890 making it the 44th state back then it was a hundred
percent white males according the data it was like this big giant statewide
sausage fest just kidding I'm sure there was a bunch other races and females they
only counted white males on the census back then today the US census has
Wyoming's population at about ninety two point eight percent white one point
three percent is black or african-american 10 percent is Hispanic
or Latino one percent is Asian and two point seven percent is Native American
so yes it's a little bit lopsided when it comes to hate groups Wyoming only has
two according to the Southern Poverty Law so that's good that's not a lot the
thing is if you're looking for a good taco in Wyoming you might have to do
some research they do have them but they're few and far between and Taco
Bell doesn't count so stop typing Wyoming is ranked 37th in
racial diversity and household diversity which means like the status of the home
married single separated whatever they came in 47 the economic diversity
is second so that's good it's almost like they're all you know making decent
money together number nine Ohio on February 19th 1803 US President
Thomas Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries
in Constitution the thing is this Congress never passed a resolution
formally admitting Ohio as the 17th state they were a little suspect to this
place way back then the custom of Congress declaring an official date of
statehood didn't start until 1812 like nine years later if you ever visit Ohio
you know it's got a laundry list of things that need to be fixed the racial
division is one of them according to the u.s. census roughly eighty two point
five percent of Ohio's population is white 12.8 is black or african-american
three point seven is Hispanic or Latino and two point two percent is Asian only
0.3% is Native American Ohio has 35 hate groups according to research by the
Southern Poverty Law Center they ranked 41st and racial diversity and 42nd in
economic diversity way to go Ohio maybe that's why people
are flooding out of there number eight Iowa the first American
settlers officially moved to Iowa in June of 1833 a vast majority of these
families were from Ohio Pennsylvania New York and Kentucky they'll pitch their
tent on the eastern banks of the Mississippi River 99% of those families
would be considered Caucasian we know this because this is where the phrase
okie-dokie originated right after getting territorial status the ball got
rolling for statehood on December 28 1846 Iowa became the 29th state in the
Union according to the u.s. census ninety one point four percent of Iowa's
population is white three point seven percent is black or african-american
five point eight is Hispanic or Latino two point five is Asian and point five
percent is Native American Iowa has just four hate groups and that's according to
the research by the Southern Poverty Law Center like I've said before sure they
have a couple hate groups but statistically especially in this day and
age on the climate we have in this country you'd think they'd have more but
if you know anyone from Iowa you know they tend to be good people and they
were raised properly so I think that helps keep the number of hate groups
down also keeps that crime really low too anyway the racial diversity in Iowa
got ranked 45th and the socioeconomically they were 30
third and 45th for household diversity so why does household diversity matter
I'm not talking about things that are good we're not talking about things that
are bad we're just talking about things that really don't have a lot of
differences you know the whole core of diversity they have a lot of families
that are just a man and a wife and kids they don't have a lot of divorced people
separated people or anything like that that's all it means
number seven Utah the Beehive state was admitted into the Union on january 4
1896 like most western states it started as a territory and has some pretty
strange history when it comes to outsiders like the mountain meadow
Massacre for example this happened in 1857 when a Mormon militia decided they
didn't like a wagon train full of people from Arkansas camping on their territory
on their way to California so they surrounded the settlers and over the
course of four days they terminated everyone over the age of eight years old
I don't know what their problem with the people from Arkansas was I mean I have a
neighbor from Arkansas and I won't let him borrow tools and he keeps putting
trash in my can when his is full I'm not going to lay siege on his house and
attack at some point it just seems like a little bit of an overkill if you ask
me anyway like I said they aren't really fans of others I mean that was until
sometime later when they needed tourist dollars and they're fans of everyone
come on in they even convinced a bunch of tech
companies to move to Utah over the years they were like 18 data centers and who
knows how many data rooms there 85% of Utah is white 2% is Asian 1.2
percent is Native American only 1% black or African American and 6%
other wonder who's another they also have a large Hawaiian and Samoan
community because the Mormon thing anyway they're ranked 50th on household
diversity and 49th on both political and religious diversity number 6 Kentucky
Kentucky was admitted into the Union on June 4 1792 and it's been a magical
relationship ever since I'm totally kidding if you're looking for a state to
have a home in a reasonable mortgage you could do a lot worse than Kentucky the
land is relatively cheap here people are decent and you'll probably starve to
death if you're hoping to land a job as a teacher for an English as a second
language class according to the US Census roughly 88% of Kentucky's
population is white eight point three percent is black or african-american
three percent is Hispanic or Latino and one percent Asian they also have
point three percent Native American Kentucky isn't too welcoming when it
comes to diversity the state has 23 hate groups as the estimate that maybe three
more hate groups than they actually have immigration lawyers in the state I'm
guessing I could be wrong anyway racial diversity they ranked 46th 39th for
political diversity number five Montana Montana's nickname is Big Sky Country
and it was admitted into the Union on November 8th 1889 so it hasn't been
around as long as a lot of the other states anyway Montana is a state very
similar to Wyoming as far as well almost everything
similar landscape weather history and dudes named Wyatt according to the US
Census roughly eighty nine point two percent of Montana's population is white
point six percent is black or african-american three point six percent
is Hispanic or Latino and only 0.8 percent is Asian now this is one of the
highest we've seen of Native Americans they've got almost seven percent Native
American Montana also has seven hate groups every one of the types of
diversity that was ranked Montana ranked in the 40s
except economics just like Wyoming Wyoming was number three they were
ranked number two in economic everyone's making the same kind of money they're
apparently number four New Hampshire the Granite State was admitted into the
Union on June 21st 1788 making them the ninth state New Hampshire has the
shortest coastline of any state in the United States that has a coastline and
is rumored to be the location of one of Blackbeard the pirate his buried
treasure apparently some place along the coast of New Hampshire New Hampshire is
considered by most to be one of the best States to live in if you can handle the
winter and the high cost living they don't have in any like state income tax
whatsoever so that's nice but still they got a high cost of living on may 31st
2007 New Hampshire became the first state to recognize same-sex unions
without a court order or a threat of one they just did it so I mean in a lot of
ways their you know their diversity should go up for that but you'll see the
second here the u.s. census estimates that about ninety four percent of New
Hampshire's population is white one percent is black or african-american
only about three percent is Hispanic or Latino two percent is Asian at about 0.3
percent is Native American New Hampshire has six hate groups it's still a really
good state to live in it's it's a beautiful
state beautiful landscape just not a lot of people move there that aren't really
you know of the Caucasian or Western European descent New Hampshire's ranked
47th when it comes to racial diversity 36 with economic diversity and then when
you look at household it's 46 and religious diversity everyone's going the
same route on that one it's ranked 48th number three Vermont the Green Mountain
state was admitted into the Union on March 4th 1791 but earlier on June 2nd
1777 the second convention of 72 delegates met and adopted the name
Vermont this was a suggestion given by dr. Thomas young he was a friend and
mentor of Ethan Allen yeah the furniture dude he was advising them on how to
achieve admission into the newly independent United States of America as
the 14th state it wasn't until years later they found out that the word
Vermont was a native word for get off my lawn according to you a census roughly
ninety four point six percent of Vermont's population is white one point
three is black or african-american one point nine percent is Hispanic or Latino
and one point eight percent is Asian only 0.4 percent is Native American
congratulations Vermont you only have one hate group they have five members
and they play Dungeons and Dragons on Thursdays Vermont ranked 48th in racial
diversity and 47 in religious diversity number two Maine Maine is a great state
and the people have always been very welcoming well maybe not that City
official and emailed me he's a little perturbed about something I said in the
video he said I gave bad information about his town which I didn't so i
directed him to the link of his own cities web site where the information
was and I never heard from again I don't know it happened anyway most the people
are nice in Maine which is why I was a little shocked when I read the
demographics of Maine it just didn't seem accurate but it is the Pinetree
state was admitted into the Union on March 15 1820 Megan at the 23rd state so
there's been plenty of time for other people to catch on domain according to
the u.s. census 95 percent of Maine's population is white or Caucasian
whichever you want to call it one point five percent is black or
african-american one point six is Hispanic or Latino and only one point
two is Asian about 0.7 percent is native American Maine has just three hate
groups so I mean that's good but still the racial diversity in Maine was ranked
49th by wallet hub the religious diversity was 50th and the household
diversity was 39th now again I want to make that clear on that one this video
isn't about how something is bad or anything like that the household one
just tells you that there's not a lot of different family types there there's not
a whole bunch of single moms or single dads there's not a bunch of divorcees or
separated people there just seems to be a lot of average American household to
add mom kids and number one West Virginia if you're looking for diversity
in West Virginia I got some bad news for you there's almost none at least outside
of Charleston maybe Huntington in Morgantown once you get outside of those
three cities diversity becomes rare very rare like a mermaid riding a unicorn
being chased by Bigfoot behind a Taco Bell tie prayer go deep in the haulers
and they think Malcolm X is a member of the x-men in case you don't know what a
holler is a holler is an Appalachian pronunciation for hallo a village in
West Virginia for example might be identified as a holler because you know
it's in the mountains and it's geography basically the southern Appalachians are
not the only place with hollows although they may be the only place to this site
a Jupiter that calls them hollers according to the US Census roughly 94
percent of the population in West Virginia is white 3% is black or
african-american 1.5 percent is Hispanic or Latino 0.8 percent is Asian point 2
percent is Native American and that is it in addition wallet hub found that the
state scored low when it came to linguistic diversity meaning they only
speak one language there when it comes to racial diversity they ranked 50th
political diversity they ranked 37 and religion was 42nd not a lot of diversity
going on here
alright so that is my states with the least amount of diversity I hope this
was good information for a lot of you I get asked about it all the time and I
know a lot of people that ask want it to go this other direction I just wanted to
give you the facts let people know which states are which and how they are it's
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