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We really worked very closely with the Census
around the 2010 Census.
We're very pleased to continue that relationship
and have the Census here today to share lots of keen insights
with respect to major trends that have come out.
We've been working on data collected in 2010
for a long time now and we're anxious
to see your reactions to this.
I'm pleased that we can talk with you about a report
that we released last fall on the black population.
the first concept is what we call the race
"alone" population.
This includes people who reported a single race group
such as Black or African American.
The second concept, race "in combination", includes people
who reported more than one race group.
So for example people who reported
that they were both Black and White
or that they were both Black and Asian.
The third concept that we use
in the report is the sum of those first two.
The "alone" population plus the
"in combination" population yields the "alone
or in combination" population.
the Black "alone" population increased from 34.6 million
to 39 million over 10 years.
the Black "in combination" population increased
from 1.8 million in 2000 to 3.1 million in 2010.
The Black "alone
or in combination" population increased from 36.4 million
to 42 million over the last ten years.
Here you can see that in 2010, 12.6% of all people
in the United States identified as African American.
in addition, 1% of people identified as Black
"in combination" with one or more other races
such as Asian or White.
Together these two groups totaled 13.6% of all people
in the country who identified as African American.
So I will start by discussing the regions and states looking
at the non-hispanic black population by region and states.
This map shows the Black "alone
or in combination" population was highly concentrated
in counties in the South.
Counties with 50% or more of the Black "alone
or in combination" population were located in states
such as North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Black "alone or in combination" population
in counties located
in the Northeastern corridor grew significantly.
As well as counties in the South, specifically Florida.
Counties in Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon,
Washington and Hawaii.
The Mid-West had pockets of high growth in states
such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
The Black "alone or in combination" population
in the South experienced the largest declines
in the percentage change between 2000 and 2010.
There were large percentage point decreases
of Blacks living inside the largest principal city,
relative to those who lived outside of that city.
This is mirroring what it happening generally in many
of the Metro areas across the country.
A lot of the movements to the South have been going
on for decades, that's where the jobs are growing.
The people who are coming to the South are not coming back.
They are not coming back to those jobs
that they left behind.
They are new people coming to new kinds of jobs.
The whole economic situation is inextricably linked
to education.
So one of the reasons
that I think we see individuals actually moving out of cities is
that they're being driven out by failing school systems.
We have to focus on how young people can early on learn how
to create entrepreneurial opportunities for themselves.
We can get a good look at the challenges
that this nation faces if we educate people
about this information and if we utilize this information
to sketch out a chart for the future.