Numbers Discussion

 Dominic Pino wrote an interesting piece this week,  and the question is....why do Americans overlook the racial/ethnic numbers in America?

It's under the National Review, and worth a read. 

So to sum up the whole piece....Pino took the numbers of individual states and cities, and discovered something in plain sight.  

In various states, the black population of these states.....are centered around urban areas....not the rural areas.  So an example....Nebraska does have a black population existing....roughly 5-percent of the total population.  But if you go and ask about numbers in Omaha....it's roughly two-thirds of the total state black population residing in the city itself.  

I used to work with a guy who lived in Maryland, and he'd talk about odd statistics of the state.  One of the discussions centered on the 30-percent of the state being black, but the vast number of blacks (his claim was 90-percent) were residents of Baltimore.  His suggestion was that once you passed Hagerstown (mid-north of the state)....blacks only made up around 2-percent of the population for the whole western part of the state. 

This discussion working in all fifty states?  No.  I would disagree with maybe two or three states.  But it does bring up the view of a fair segment of society....they don't see the racial divide because they don't see vast numbers of blacks....unless you go into an urban zone.