In 2003, this group became the largest ethnic minority in the U.S. At the same time, the growth rate of the Spanish-speaking population is one and a half times higher than that recorded by statistics among African Americans, who are the second largest ethnic group in the U.S. (40.7 million people).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in sixteen states the number of people from Latin American countries exceeds 500,000. Most representatives of this group live in California (13.2 million people), with Texas and Florida in second and third places respectively.
As Lenta.ru notes, African Americans live in less compact groups. Thus, only in 20 U.S. states are there more than 500,000 black U.S. citizens, and most African Americans live in New York (3.5 million people).
White Americans in the U.S. number 199.1 million people, while representatives of various racial minorities number 102.5 million people.