The nation’s ever growing ethnic and racial diversity has been gaining in the Midwest.
While this is commonplace and has been growing for decades in coastal and border locations, the Midwest and northern Great Plains are catching up.
This comes into focus in some of the early detailed data released from the 2020 Census. It shows the non-Hispanic white population declined for the first time in our history. The latest numbers show that 4 out of 10 people now identify as a minority.