Talk:List of U.S. states and territories by African-American population

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Those percents are wrong. With those percents Vermont has 721,494, Hawaii 695,584, Montana 601,045, Alaska 544,801 and Wyoming 368,062 of population.

According to List of U.S. states and territories by population's table's 2010 census (as these figures claim to be) column we have: Vermont 625,741, Hawaii 1,360,301, Montana 989,415, Alaska 710,231 and Wyoming 563,626. That means Vermont's percent is too low, and the others have too high percent, Hawaii almost double (3.08% here, 1.57% with actual population). Is this just an error, or is there a good reason for it? None is mentioned in the article. 212.50.203.198 (talk) 08:06, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

These percentages are completely wrong according to its source (which is outdated). New source = http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2014/PEPSR5H or http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/PEP/2014/PEPSR6H Kamensky~enwiki (talk) 03:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC) kamensky~enwiki

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Article title is wrong
This list is ranked by proportion or percentage of African-American population in the state, not by their population. I will move it to "List of US states by proportion of African-American population", to reflect the content. Parkwells (talk) 01:20, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

The title would still be wrong. Censuses attempt to count all persons, including Black aliens, not just U.S. citizens (African Americans). — RVJ (talk) 23:09, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Mississippi Percentage very inaccurate
Mississippi only has about 2,984,100 residents with an African-American percentage of roughly 37%.

The real value for this should be approximately 1,100,000 people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vmcquillen (talk • contribs) 22:34, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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US Virgin Islands & Puerto Rico
Are the Afro-Caribbeans in the USVI and the Black Hispanics in Puerto Rico really African-Americans per se? It seems to me there's a big (foremost cultural) difference... Haltik (talk) 14:22, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Those numbers are based on U.S. Census data, so these would be persons who self-identified as African American or black in the decennial census. If you excluded black Puerto Ricans, black Dominicans, black West Indians, etc. from the definition of "African American," then you wouldn't be able to use U.S. Census data to determine the number of African Americans in New York or in pretty much any other state.  The U.S. Census Bureau deems "African American" to be synonymous with "black American," so if this article is going to use official U.S. government data then its editors can't impose a different definition of African American than that of the U.S. Census Bureau.  AuH2ORepublican (talk) 19:09, 25 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I see, thank you! Haltik (talk) 06:20, 8 October 2019 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. AuH2ORepublican (talk) 14:37, 8 October 2019 (UTC)