America, Not As Black As People Imagine
Okay, no surprise.
But in reading the polling data, one question did stand out. People were asked what percentage of the country was black.
The Census Bureau reports that in 2006, 12.8 percent of the American public was black. That number added up to about 38.3 million people. In the New York Times survey, 32 percent of all people said America was between 20 and 30 percent black. An additional 32 percent said the black population was between 30 and 40 percent. And 9 percent of respondents said America was a majority black nation.
Both a majority of black and white folks in the survey got the question wrong. I guess I should stop being surprised at what people don’t know, but I really don’t get how people can figure the nation is 30 percent or more black.
Do whites get it wrong out of a fear of being overrun? Are blacks looking for strength in numbers? In any case, I don’t get what people are thinking sometimes. Don’t folks have any sense of the world around them?
Here is BlackDemograhics.com with information on blacks in the United States.
