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Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html |title=Race and Ethnicity in the United States: 2010 Census and 2020 Census |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=August 12, 2021 |website=census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815165418/https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number" |Alone ! colspan="2" data-sort-type="number" |Total |- | [[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White (non-Hispanic)]] |align=right| {{bartable|50.1|%|2||background:gray}} |align=right| {{bartable|53.2|%|2||background:gray}} |- | [[African Americans|African American (non-Hispanic)]] |align=right| {{bartable|30.6|%|2||background:mediumblue}} |align=right| {{bartable|32.3|%|2||background:mediumblue}} |- | [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]]{{efn|Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry.}} |align=right| {{bartable}} |align=right| {{bartable|10.5|%|2||background:green}} |- | [[Asian Americans|Asian]] |align=right| {{bartable|4.4|%|2||background:purple}} |align=right| {{bartable|5.2|%|2||background:purple}} |- | Native American |align=right| {{bartable|0.2|%|2||background:gold}} |align=right| {{bartable|1.5|%|2||background:gold}} |- | [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] |align=right| {{bartable|0.1|%|2||background:pink}} |align=right| {{bartable|0.1|%|2||background:pink}} |- | Other |align=right| {{bartable|0.5|%|2||background:brown}} |align=right| {{bartable|1.2|%|2||background:brown}} |} {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size: 90%;" |+ '''Historical racial demographics''' |- ! Racial composition !! 1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/twps0056.html |title=Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For The United States, Regions, Divisions, and States |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=July 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224151538/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/twps0056.html |archive-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref>!! 2000<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://censusviewer.com/city/GA|title=Population of Georgia: Census 2010 and 2000 Interactive Map, Demographics, Statistics, Quick Facts|website=Censusviewer.ocm|access-date=April 17, 2021}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>!! 2010<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov//2010census/data/ |title=2010 Census Data |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=July 27, 2014 |archive-date=July 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713154415/https://www.census.gov/2010census/data/ |url-status=live }}</ref>!! 2020<ref name="2020DP1">{{Cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDP2020.DP1?g=040XX00US13 |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2020 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Georgia |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=April 2, 2024}}</ref> |- | [[White American|White]] || 71.0% || 65.1% || 59.7% || 51.9% |- | [[African American|Black]] || 27.0% || 28.7% || 30.5% || 31.0% |- | [[Asian American|Asian]] || 1.2% || 2.1% || 3.3% || 4.5% |- | [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] || 0.2% || 0.3% || 0.3% || 0.5% |- | [[Native Hawaiian]] and <br />[[Pacific Islander|other Pacific Islander]] ||—|| 0.1% || 0.1% || 0.1% |- | [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|Other race]] || 0.6% || 2.4% || 4.0% || 5.2% |- | [[Multiracial American|Two or more races]] ||—|| 1.4% || 2.1% || 6.9% |} In the [[1980 United States census|1980 census]], 1,584,303 people from Georgia claimed [[English American|English]] ancestry out of a total state population of 3,994,817, making them 40% of the state, and the largest ethnic group at the time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov//population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111061729/http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/pc80-s1-10/tab03.pdf |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |url-status=live |title=Persons Who Reported at Least One Specific Ancestry Group for Regions, Divisions and States | year = 1980 |publisher=Census |access-date=October 23, 2012}}</ref> Today, many of these same people claiming they are of "American" ancestry are actually of English descent, and some are of [[Scottish-Irish American|Scots-Irish]] descent; however, their families have lived in the state for so long, in many cases since the colonial period, that they choose to identify simply as having "American" ancestry or do not in fact know their own ancestry. Their ancestry primarily goes back to the original thirteen colonies and for this reason many of them today simply claim "American" ancestry, though they are of predominantly English ancestry.<ref>{{Citation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | title = Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America | first = Dominic J | last = Pulera | isbn = 9780826416438 | date = October 20, 2004 | publisher = A&C Black | access-date = October 16, 2015 | archive-date = January 16, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230116051127/https://books.google.com/books?id=SVoAXh-dNuYC&pg=PA57 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first = Reynolds | last = Farley | title = The New Census Question about Ancestry: What Did It Tell Us? | journal = Demography | volume = 28 | number = 3 |date=August 1991 | pages = 411–29 | doi=10.2307/2061465 | pmid=1936376| jstor = 2061465 | s2cid = 41503995 | doi-access = free}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Lawrence | last2 = Santi | title = The Use of Nativity Data to Estimate Ethnic Characteristics and Patterns | journal = Social Science Research | volume = 14 | number = 1 | year = 1985 | pages = 44–6 | doi=10.1016/0049-089x(85)90011-0}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | first1 = Stanley | last1 = Lieberson | first2 = Mary C | last2 = Waters | title = Ethnic Groups in Flux: The Changing Ethnic Responses of American Whites | journal = Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | volume = 487 | number = 79 |date=September 1986 | pages = 82–86 | doi=10.1177/0002716286487001004| s2cid = 60711423}}</ref> Historically, about half of Georgia's population was composed of African Americans who, before the [[American Civil War]], were almost exclusively enslaved. The [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] of hundreds of thousands of blacks from the rural South to the industrial North from 1914 to 1970 reduced the African American population.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.brookings.edu/urban/pubs/20040524_Frey.pdf |first=William H |last=Frey |title=The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965–2000 |publisher=The Brookings Institution |date=May 2004 |access-date=May 19, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428042235/http://www.brookings.edu/urban/pubs/20040524_Frey.pdf |archive-date=April 28, 2008}}</ref> Georgia had the second-fastest-growing Asian population growth in the U.S. from 1990 to 2000, more than doubling in size during the ten-year period.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |title=Atlanta |type=profile |publisher=Oca |place=GA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711094955/http://www.oca-georgia.org/AtlantaProfile.pdf |archive-date=July 11, 2009}}</ref> Indian people and Chinese people are the largest Asian groups in Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |title=Georgia - AAPI Data |access-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308150150/https://aapidata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/GA-2018.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, according to census estimates, Georgia ranks third among the states in terms of the percent of the total population that is African American (after [[Mississippi]] and [[Louisiana]]) and third in numeric Black population after New York and Florida. Georgia also has a sizeable Latino population. Many are of Mexican descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|title=Latino Immigration|access-date=November 19, 2022|archive-date=November 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119032026/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/latino-immigration/|url-status=live}}</ref> Georgia is the state with the third-lowest percentage of older people (65 or older), at 12.8 percent ({{as of|2015|lc=y}}).<ref>{{Citation|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13000.html |contribution=Georgia |publisher=Census |title=Quickfacts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622105843/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13000.html |archive-date=June 22, 2015}}</ref> The colonial settlement of large numbers of [[Scottish American]], [[English American]] and [[Scotch-Irish American]]s in the mountains and Piedmont, and coastal settlement by some [[English American]]s and African Americans, have strongly influenced the state's culture in food, language and music. The concentration of African slaves repeatedly "imported" to coastal areas in the 18th century from rice-growing regions of West Africa led to the development of [[Gullah]]-Geechee language and culture in the Low Country among African Americans. They share a unique heritage in which many African traditions of food, religion and culture were retained. In the creolization of Southern culture, their foodways became an integral part of Low Country cooking.<ref>{{Citation | publisher = Georgia | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080504151611/http://www.georgia.org/Travel/Early%2BMountain%2BLife.htm | archive-date = May 4, 2008 | url = http://www.georgia.org/Travel/Early+Mountain+Life.htm | title = Travel | contribution = Early Mountain Life | url-status=dead | df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.well.com/~mp/gAmOrigins.html | publisher = The well | title = Who are Americans | access-date = October 1, 2006 | archive-date = September 30, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181109/http://www.well.com/~mp/gAmOrigins.html | url-status = live }}</ref> Sephardic Jews, French-speaking Swiss people, Moravians, Irish convicts, Piedmont Italians and Russian people immigrated to the state during the colonial era.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/colonial-immigration/#:~:text=Immigrants%20to%20colonial%20Georgia%20came,a%20host%20of%20American%20colonies.|title=Colonial Immigration - New Georgia Encyclopedia}}</ref> {{as of|2011}}, 58.8% of Georgia's population younger than 1 were minorities (meaning they had at least one parent who was not non-Hispanic white) compared to other states like California with 75.1%, Texas with 69.8%, and New York with 55.6%.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/06/americas_under_age_1_populatio.html|title=Americans under age 1 now mostly minorities, but not in Ohio: Statistical Snapshot|last=Exner|first=Rich|date=June 3, 2012|work=[[The Plain Dealer]]|access-date=August 4, 2012|archive-date=July 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160714084214/http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2012/06/americas_under_age_1_populatio.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest European ancestry groups as of 2011 were: [[English American|English]] 8.1%, [[Irish American|Irish]] 8.1%,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_1YR_DP02&prodType=table |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212210153/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_11_1YR_DP02&prodType=table |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |title=Selected Social Characteristics in the United States-2011 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates |access-date=September 4, 2013 }}</ref> and [[German American|German]] 7.2%.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US13&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=308&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format= | title = American FactFinder | publisher = Census | access-date = February 11, 2012 | archive-date = February 11, 2020 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20200211182406/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US13&-qr_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_DP2&-context=adp&-ds_name=ACS_2009_1YR_G00_&-tree_id=308&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false&-format= | url-status = dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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