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  2. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The plurality (not majority) ethnic background in each county in the US in 2000: German English Norwegian Dutch Finnish Irish French Italian Mexican Native Spanish American African American Puerto Rican The largest ethnic backgrounds in each county in the US in 2016. Plurality ancestry in each state, ranging from 11.8% (FL) to 43.9 % (ND).

  3. Economic geography - Wikipedia

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    Regional economic geography examines the economic conditions of particular regions or countries of the world. It deals with economic regionalization as well as local economic development. Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population ...

  4. Dot distribution map - Wikipedia

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    Dot distribution map. A bivariate dot density map showing the relative concentrations of the Black and Hispanic populations in the United States in 2010. A dot distribution map (or a dot density map or simply a dot map) is a type of thematic map that uses a point symbol to visualize the geographic distribution of a large number of related ...

  5. Racial inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, racial inequality refers to the social inequality and advantages and disparities that affect different races. These can also be seen as a result of historic oppression, inequality of inheritance, or racism and prejudice, especially against minority groups. There are vast differences in wealth across racial groups in ...

  6. AP Human Geography - Wikipedia

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    Russian Language and Culture (discontinued 2010) v. t. e. Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, AP HuG, AP Human, HuGS, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered ...

  7. Ethnicity - Wikipedia

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    t. e. An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include a people of a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment. [1][2] The term ...

  8. Gini coefficient - Wikipedia

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    In economics, the Gini coefficient (/ ˈdʒiːni / JEE-nee), also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality, the wealth inequality, or the consumption inequality [3] within a nation or a social group. It was developed by Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado ...

  9. Social stratification - Wikipedia

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    Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political). It is a hierarchy within groups that ascribe them to different levels of privileges. [1]