As many as a whole 14 US states have actually
lost non-Hispanic white population in actual numbers since 1990. Those states are; California (more than 2 million), New York (1,156,000), New Jersey (504,000), Illinois (383,000), Pennsylvania (328,000), Connecticut (208,000), Massachusetts (195,000), Maryland (168,000), Rhode Island (93,000), Ohio (85,000), Michigan (80,000), Louisiana (41,000), Hawaii (38,000) and North Dakota (3,600). California and New York/New Jersey alone have lost more than 3.7 million non-Hispanic whites in just 20 years.
Now these are the reductions state by state in the percentage of their non-Hispanic white population between 1970 and 2010:
1. California: -36.2%
2. Nevada: -32.6%
3. Maryland: -25.7%
4. New Jersey: -25.4%
5. Texas: -24.3%
6. New York: -21.8%
7. Washington: -21.1%
8. Connecticut: -20.2%
9. Florida: -20%
10. Illinois: -19.8%
11. Rhode Island: -19.7%
12. Oklahoma: -19.4%
13. Massachusetts: -19.3%
14. Delaware: -18.8%
15. Georgia: -17.5%
16. Oregon: -17.3%
17. Arizona: -16.5%
18. Virginia: -15.3%
19. Hawaii: -15.3%
20. Minnesota: -14.6%
21. Colorado: -14.6%
22. Kansas: -14.5%
23. New Mexico: -13.3%
24. Utah: -13.2%
25. Nebraska: -13.1%
26. Alaska: -13.1%
27. Wisconsin: -12.3%
28. Idaho: -11.9%
29. Pennsylvania: -10.8%
30. Michigan: -10.5%
31. Indiana: -10.2%
32. North Carolina: -10.2%
33. South Dakota: -9.9%
34. Iowa: -9.3%
35. Ohio: -8.7%
36. Tennessee: -8.1%
37. North Dakota: -8%
38. Louisiana: -7.9%
39. Missouri: -7.6%
40. Montana: -6.9%
41. New Hampshire: -6.8%
42. Arkansas: -6.5%
43. Alabama: -6.3%
44. Wyoming: -6.2%
45. Kentucky: -6.1%
46. Vermont: -4.9%
47. South Carolina: -4.9%
48. Maine: -4.7%
49. Mississippi: -4.6%
50. West Virginia: -2.5%
(51. Washington D.C.: +8.3%)
(Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hispanic_Whites#Historical_Population_by_state_or_territory)
Mostly urban Democratic states with the highest changes (except Texas) and mostly (Deep) South Republican states with the least changes (with the big exceptions of Georgia & Florida). California, Nevada, Maryland and New Jersey at the top, with West Virginia and Mississippi hitting rock bottom. Anyone seeing similarities with the actual electoral maps of 2008 and 2012 here?
If I were to illustrate the changes of each state in a map, it would look like this:
Interesting, isn't it?
