TABLE 4.

Composition of the US white and black populations by single and multiple identities, by Hispanic origin, and by foreign birth, 2000

	Percent of total
	US populationa		Whites, Blacksb		Percent Hispanicc		Percent foreign-bornc
White and/or Black identity	White	Black	Whites	Blacks	Whites	Blacks	Whites	Blacks
Not White or Not Black	22.9	87.1
Total White or Total Black	77.1	12.9	100.0	100.0	8.6	2.6	7.7	7.4
White alone or Black alone	75.1	12.2	97.3	94.9	8.0	1.9	7.3	6.7
White or Black in combination	2.1	0.7	2.7	5.1	31.9	17.2	23.3	20.5
White/Black	0.3		0.4	2.2	10.2		7.0
AIAN	0.4	0.1	0.6	0.6	8.8	6.4	2.4	4.3
Black, White, and AIAN	0.0		0.1	0.3	15.9		4.7
Asian	0.3	0.0	0.4	0.3	5.7	6.3	25.9	32.2
NHOPI	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	10.9	6.9	13.3	48.5
SOR	0.8	0.2	1.1	1.3	63.9	35.1	42.0	50.4
Other combinations	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.4	28.0	25.6	13.2	19.3

AIAN = American Indian and Alaska Native; NHOPI = Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander; SOR = some other race.

SOURCE: 2000 IPUMS .01 File

^aUniverse = Total US population.

^bUniverse = Whites alone and in combination, Blacks alone and in combination.

^cUniverse = Specific populations defined by row labels.