That's the only one I didn't get. I started off guessing New England states, then moved on to "flyover" states, and didn't think to try the rest of the east coast.
Well I tried Alaska first and that one didn't work. I guess the natives don't identify as white either. American race categories are really confusing. To me, black and white describe skin colour and not much more, I absolutely don't get how it's something you "identify" as. I first heard about the whole subject when Condoleeza Rice described how people told her to act "more black" and I just didn't get what they meant.
Because it really isn't as white as you think. It used to be in the top ten until the past couple years. There are quite a bit of Hispanics. The asian population has grown 50% and doubled what it used to be. Even the black population has gone up a whole 1%. Besides Hawaii Utah has the most Pacific islanders (Tongans and Samoans). And there is a pretty big Native American population. It's still pretty white tho.
1. Geography (far from states where slavery was legal, except for West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia specifically because they didn't have many slaves, and far from the Mexican border).
2. Lack of large cities. In these ten states there are a total of 4 cities with (metro area) population over 150,000: Omaha (466,893), Lincoln (284,736), Boise (226,570), and Des Moines (217,521). Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Maine don't even have a single city over 100,000.
West Virginia was my first guess after the New England states because I'm from Virginia and have been to WV many times. Whenever I've gone anywhere in Appalachia, I've always been fascinated by the total lack of black people. Seriously if I'm in a public place, I catch myself waiting for one to walk around the corner or something, and it never happens.
As a non-native of Utah, I can't say that I've ever heard the term "Utahn" used before. Learn something new every day! I guess my fall Saturday ritual of watching anything college football has conditioned me to "Utes" haha
Utah has a large Hispanic population, a large Polynesian population, a growing African refugee population, a decent amount of Native Americans (compared to other states), and the usual hodgepodge of people from other places. It adds up.
Just kidding ;)
1. Geography (far from states where slavery was legal, except for West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia specifically because they didn't have many slaves, and far from the Mexican border).
2. Lack of large cities. In these ten states there are a total of 4 cities with (metro area) population over 150,000: Omaha (466,893), Lincoln (284,736), Boise (226,570), and Des Moines (217,521). Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Maine don't even have a single city over 100,000.