WHITEST STATES - where would you live? (place, America, population)

[caliguy92832]

My question to all of you is, out of the whitest states in the USA, what one would you want to live in the most?

I just did some research on this website - Census.gov. I looked up each states "non-hispanic white" population. Here's what I found out...

Non-Hispanic White Population % By State
1. Vermont 94.0%
2. Maine 93.9%
3. West Virginia 92.6%
4. New Hampshire 91.4%
5. Iowa 87.5%
6. North Dakota 87.4%
7. Montana 87.0%
8. Kentucky 85.7%
9. Montana 84.7%
10. South Dakota 83.4%
11. Idaho 83.2%
12. Wisconsin 82.5%
13. Minnesota 81.9%
14. Nebraska 81.0%
15. Indiana 80.6%
16. Missouri 80.4%
17. Ohio 80.3%
18. Utah 79.5%
19. Pennsylvania 78.2%
20. Oregon 77.3%
21. Kansas 77.1%
22. Michigan 75.9%
23. Tennessee 74.8%
24. Massachusetts 74.6%
25. Rhode Island 74.6%
26. Arkansas 73.6%
27. Washington 70.9%
28. Connecticut 69.3%
29. Colorado 69.1%
30. Oklahoma 67.4%
31. Alabama 66.3%
32. North Carolina 64.2%
33. Delaware 64.0%
34. South Carolina 63.8%
35. Virginia 63.5%
36. Illinois 62.7%
37. Alaska 62.5%
38. Louisiana 59.5%
39. Mississippi 57.4%
40. New Jersey 57.3%
41. New York 56.9%
42. Arizona 56.6%
43. Florida 56.2%
44. Georgia 54.6%
45. Maryland 53.2%
46. Nevada 52.1%
47. Texas 43.9%
48. New Mexico 39.3%
49. California 38.8%
50. District of Columbia 35.6%
51. Hawaii 23.0%

[ghdana]

This list doesn't tell the entire story because of largere cities. It has PA at 78% white, when the 3 counties I spend most of my time in are over 97% white. Growing up in an area like this makes me appreciate places that actually are diverse. I love places like California and Arizona because of the huge diversity that I didn't grow up with.

[UAE50]

None. And I need to see the metro areas...It's hard for me to pick states since they're mostly huge and I like living in cities / metro areas, not rural.

And this should be in the general U.S. section.

[MrKnight]

What is it with the obsession with race on these forums? Why does it matter which states are "non-Hispanic white" and what the percentages are? Clearly the OP is trying to start a racially-driven debate..

[RadicalAtheist]

Or perhaps you are with that line of questioning.

[BostonBornMassMade]

I guess the top 15 states would be considered the whitest yea? In that case none

[Tiger Beer]

Ah, I went with Hawaii. But its at the bottom. I guess we should approach the list by going from the top down, and see the first state we can see that we think we could tolerate.

It took awhile, but I think I could handle WASHINGTON which is #26. I'd prefer somewhere much further down the list, but Washington is the first remotely appealing place I could see as I read it top-down.

[BigCityDreamer]

I think most people would agree that the bottom half of that list contains more interesting/richer states, as a whole, than the top half.

However, if you're mainly into middle America, then there are a lot more options in the top half.

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Of the top 15:

#12 Minnesota, #13 Wisconsin (if I had to, grr Packers!)

Some of these places are really changing demographically (like MN), and cities are much more diverse than rural areas in much of the country, so it comes down to multiple factors.

I love some of the attitudes expressed so far -- very open-minded!

[BostonBornMassMade]

The states only start to feel truly "white" (whatever that means) in the top 20...excluding PA because Philly is soooo influential and including Kansas. They become "white states" in the top 15. Some with significant but singular AA or Mexican minorities