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Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States in percentage of the population. The United States census enumerated Whites and Blacks since 1790, Asians and Native Americans since 1860 (though all Native Americans in the U.S. were not enumerated until 1890), "some other race" since 1950, and "two or more races" since 2000. [2]
The Midwestern and Western United States became urban majority in the 1910s, while the Southern United States only became urban-majority after World War II, in the 1950s. [2] The Western U.S. is the most urbanized part of the country today, followed closely by the Northeastern United States.
According to statistics, the United States currently has the highest marriage rate in the developed world, as of 2008, with a marriage rate of 7.1 per 1,000 people or 2,162,000 marriages. The average age for first marriage for men is 27.4 and 25.6 years for women. [32]
Demographic perspectives make use of the large volume of census data from the mid-19th century. [28] [29] Rather than being strictly areas of geographical segmentation, spatial patterns and concepts of place reveal the struggles for power of various social groups, including gender, class, race, and ethnic identity.
The historic change brought by the migration was amplified because the migrants, for the most part, moved to the then-largest cities in the United States (New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.) at a time when those cities had a central cultural, social, political, and economic ...
[1] [2] The United States has also had a long history of hostility to the city, as characterized for example by Thomas Jefferson's agrarianism and the Populist movement of the 1890s. [3] Mary Sies (2003) argues: At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing.
Indeed, the National Center for Health Statistics report showed that birth rates declined for women aged 15 through 39. Overall, there were about 3.59 million births in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% ...
In 2006, Gross published the book Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. [4] In Colored Amazons, Gross studies the crimes, persecution, and incarceration of African American women in Philadelphia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, in the period 1880 to 1910, using historical records like incarceration data ...