Who are the People in Your Neighborhood?
Our "neighborhood" is five states-Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas-and you don't need to open a book or click a mouse to realize that this makes for a fantastically diverse group of people!
- Our region's minority population includes, in
decreasing population order:
- African American
- Hispanic
- American Indian/Alaska Native
- Vietnamese
- Asian Indian
- Chinese
- Filipino
- Japanese
- and many, many other groups in highly diverse metro areas such as Houston, the fourth largest city in the U.S.
- We speak upwards of forty different languages.
According to http://www.census.gov, the
top ten spoken at home (after English) are:
- Spanish
- French (including Patois, Cajun)
- Vietnamese
- German
- Chinese
- Navajo/Diné
- Other Native North American languages
- Tagalog
- Korean
- Arabic
- About a third of New Mexicans and Texans speak a
language other than English at home.
American Community Survey
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Products/Ranking/2003/R03T040.htm
- Distribution of Racial/Ethnic Populations in the
SCR
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outreach/minorities.html
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the
SCR
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outreach/black_colleges.html
- Tribal Colleges in the SCR
http://nnlm.gov/scr/outreach/tribalcollege.html
- Largest American Indian/Alaska Native tribes in the
SCR according to the 2000 Census:
- Cherokee (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Navajo (Primarily New Mexico)
- Choctaw (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Pueblo (many different tribes, primarily New Mexico)
- Creek (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Chickasaw (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Apache (New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas)
- Seminole (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Comanche (Oklahoma, Texas)
- Kiowa (Primarily Oklahoma)
- Houma (Primarily Louisiana)
Tribal Directory of the National Congress of American Indians http://www.ncai.org/Tribal_Directory.3.0.html
