07-17-2001 La Porte Redistricting Committee Regular Meeting

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Table 2. Popelation of Two or More Races, IncludingAll Combinations, for the United States: 2000-Con. Race Number Percent of Two or more races population Five races .............................................................................. 8,637 0.1 White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander .............................................................. 6,611 0.1 White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Some other race ... 724 - White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; Some other race ................................................... 68 - White; Black or African American; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; Some other race ............................................................................. 379 - White; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; Some other race ....................................................................... 639 - Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; Some other race ................................................... 216 - Six races ............................................................................... 823 - White; Black or African American; American Indian and Alaska Native; Asian; Native Hawaiian and Other Pac'rfic Islander; Some other race ............................................... 823 - -Percentage rounds to 0.0. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Redistricting (Public Law 94-171) Summary File, Table PL1 Only 2.4 percent of all respondents reported two or more races. The Two or more races category rep- resents all respondents who re- ported more than one race. The six race categories of Census 2000 can be put together in 57 possible com- binations of two, three, four, five, or six races (see Table 2). Less than 3 percent of the total population re- ported more than one race. Of the 6.8 million respondents who re- ported two or more races, 93 per- cent reported exactly two. The most common combination was "White and Some other race," representing 32 percent of the Two or more races population.' This was followed by "White and American Indian and Alaska Native," representing 16 percent, "White And Asian," repre- senting 13 percent, and "White and Black or African American," repre- senting 1 1 percent. Of all respon- dents reporting exactly two races, ' The Two or more races categories are,de- noted by quotations around the combinations with the conjunction and in bold and italicized print to indicate the separate race groups that comprise the particular combination. 47 percent included Some other race as one of the two. Of all respondents who reported more than one race, 7 percent indicated three or more. Most of these (90 percent) reported three races. The Office of Management and Budget identified four combinations of two races for civiY rights monitoring and enforcement. In March 2000, the OMB estab- lished guidelines for the aggrega- tion and allocation of race re- sponses from Census 2000 for use in civil rights monitoring and en- forcement. These guidelines in- cluded the five OMB race categories and identified four specific combinations of two races.e These four OMB race combinations, which e Guidance on Aggregation and AflocaUon of Data on Race for Use in Civil Rights Monitoring and Enforcement, Office of Management and Budget Bulletin Number 00-02, March 9, 2000. Also included in the guidelines was the inclu- sion of any multiple race combinations [exclud- ing Some other race] that comprise more than I percent of the population of interest. For more information, see www.whitehouse.gov/ omb/bulletins/b00-02.htm 1. were the largest combinations re- ported in recent research, are: ^ "White and American Indian and Alaska Native" ^ "White and Asian" ^ "White and Black or African American" ^ "Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native." In fact, these four combinations are the largest categories, when combi- nations that include Some other race are excluded. Combined, these four combinations accounted for 43 percent of the population re- porting Two or more races (see Fig- ure 2) and l percent of the total population. The maximum number oP people reportin$ a particular race is reflected in the race alone or in combination category. Respondents who reported only one race together with those who U.S. Census Bureau