Table 2.

Characteristics of People with Black and American Indian Heritage

		% in group with this characteristic
	B-AI total % with characteristic	AI race & B anc. (W1)	B & AI races (W2)	B race & AI anc. (W3)
Past characteristics of the area
% in former Confederate slave state	38.5%	37.5%	28.1%	42.9%
% in former non-Confederate slave state	8.8%	7.9%	7.1%	9.5%
% in PUMA that held AI land in 1875	6.0%	6.6%	9.5%	4.5%
% in PUMA that held AI land in 1930	2.6%	3.9%	4.1%	1.9%
% in PUMA that held AI legal or statistical land in 2000	15.7%	15.5%	17.8%	14.8%
% in PUMA that held AI land in 1875, 1930, AND 2000	2.1%	3.0%	3.5%	1.5%
% in PUMA that held AI land in 1875, 1930, OR 2000	13.9%	12.8%	14.7%	13.6%
% in PUMA with no AI land in 1875, 1930, or 2000	84.1%	84.2%	81.8%	85.0%
% in SuperPUMA with race riot in 1960s	63.4%	60.3%	60.3%	64.8%
Current characteristics of the area
Mean % of PUMA pop. with non-AI race & AI ancestry	3.4%	3.4%	3.5%	3.4%
Mean % of PUMA pop. with AI race & AI ancestry only	0.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.6%
Mean % of PUMA pop. reporting more than one race	2.5%	2.5%	2.9%	2.3%
Characteristics of the individual
Boy aged 0–18	13.3%	15.2%	15.4%	12.3%
Girl aged 0–18	13.4%	19.1%	14.8%	12.6%
Young man aged 19–35	12.0%	10.7%	11.9%	12.0%
Young woman aged 19–35	14.2%	12.0%	13.1%	14.8%
Man aged 36–64	15.8%	14.8%	16.1%	15.7%
Woman aged 36–64	23.1%	20.3%	21.1%	23.9%
Elder man aged 65 or older	2.7%	2.9%	2.5%	2.8%
Elder woman aged 65 or older	5.6%	5.1%	5.2%	5.8%
Living in state of birth	62.5%	63.7%	59.7%	63.6%
Unweighted N	49,257	1,170	14,490	33,597
Weighted N	755,529	16,226	216,696	522,607
Row percent	100.0%	2.2%	28.7%	69.2%

Notes: Data are Census 2000 5% PUMS combined with American Community Survey data from 2006, 2007, and 2008 (accessed through IPUMS.org). All statistics are weighted unless otherwise noted. Sample excludes Latinos and people born outside the United States.