Here is NC, it is county-based and, though around 20 do it, about half (actual, not rate) happens in Robeson County, which is (probably not coincidentally) the highest proportion of Native Americans.
When I was doing NC, I noticed Roberson's number and though "What?", and just so happened to glance to the side where the corporal punishment by race figures were. I saw that the number was overwhelmingly Native American, looked up and county's demographics and then it made sense. If I recall correctly, though, the county is only like 30% Native American, but the percentage of kids punished that were Native American was >90%.
Which leads to Native Americans being about half of all NC corporal punishment victims, despite being only 2% of NC public school students.
I have never heard any sensible reason why punishments that are not used for criminals, are acceptable for schoolchildren (not supporting CP for criminals, but CP for schoolchildren is worse).
