The race and ethnicity data from the 2020 Census that was released last month revealed a demographic milestone that has been years in the making: The share of white people in the United States fell below 60 percent for the first time in the Census’s history.
One state, Maryland, is a prime example of the shift. It had the largest jump — a 6.6 percentage-point increase — in the Census Bureau’s diversity index, which measures the probability that two people chosen at random will be from different racial and ethnic groups. And it was also one of two states (the other was Nevada) whose population turned majority nonwhite over the last decade.
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