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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci. 2017 Jun 23;672(1):26–45. doi: 10.1177/0002716217708560

Table 1.

Distribution of Places by Majority-Rule Structure and RUC Category

Type of Structure RUC Category
1a 1b   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9

White dominant 19.8 47.5 43.1 54.5 56.8 43.1 55.3 58.0 58.6 61.4
White shared 56.2 41.4 41.0 35.4 30.2 37.0 29.9 27.5 29.4 25.6
  White-Black   4.1 10.8   9.4   8.2   5.7   4.3   8.5   4.7 11.6   4.4
  White-Hispanic 16.3   8.3 11.2   8.6   9.9 13.1   8.5 10.1   5.5   9.5
  White-Native American   0.0   0.2   1.4   0.4   0.9   2.4   2.3   2.3   1.2   3.1
  White-Black-Hispanic   4.2   2.7   2.5   2.2   1.1   1.5   1.5   0.7   1.2   0.1
  White-Multigroup 21.4 17.6 15.2 15.0 11.9 13.7   8.2   8.8   9.7   7.5
Black majority   5.0   5.0   2.7   2.9   2.8   3.8   5.4   4.5   8.1   2.0
Hispanic majority   6.6   2.0   8.5   3.3   5.7   5.3   3.4   3.4   0.9   1.8
Asian majority   0.5   0.1   0.4   0.1   0.0   1.4   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.1
Native American majority   0.5   0.0   0.7   1.0   1.9   2.0   2.1   4.9   1.8   6.9
No majority 11.3   4.1   3.6   2.7   2.6   7.4   3.8   1.8   1.3   2.2

Note: N = 27,163 places.