Texas is the newest addition to a group of five majority-minority states in which minority groups constitute a majority of the population. This map of the 254 counties in the state shows which counties are majority-minority jurisdictions and which are majority white. The map also provides a detailed look at the heaviest concentrations of different racial groups across the state's 254 counties. For African-Americans, American Indian and Alaskan Natives, Asians, and Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, the map shows those counties in which the percentage of the county population for a particular group exceeds the statewide percentage for that group. The resulting distributions make geographic sense. American Indian populations, though only about 1.1 percent of the state total, tend to be more heavily concentrated along the Oklahoma border where many Texas tribes were forced to relocate in the nineteenth century. African-Americans make up about 12.1 percent of the state's population but are more heavily concentrated in east Texas counties which historically have had greater affinity with the old South and the largest enslaved populations. Asians who make up about 3.5 percent of the population are relative newcomers to the state, at least in large numbers. They have tended to settle in the big urban centers of Houston and Dallas, and also in coastal regions. Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders who make up a miniscule 0.2 percent of the population are over-represented only Coryell and Bell counties where Fort Hood and its tens of thousands of service personnel are located. Hispanics who make up 35 percent of the Texas population are concentrated particularly in western and southern border counties. These regions of the state also happen to be where most majority-minority counties are located. Many of these counties are not merely majority-minority but majority Hispanic. Major urban counties, notably Harris (Houston) and Dallas counties are home to a rich mix of different racial groups.

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