{"id":41613,"date":"2015-07-01T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41613"},"modified":"2015-07-01T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:32:13","slug":"hawaii-is-home-to-the-nations-largest-share-of-multiracial-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41613","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii is home to the nation\u2019s largest share of multiracial Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/17\/hawaii-is-home-to-the-nations-largest-share-of-multiracial-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii is home to the nation\u2019s largest share of multiracial Americans<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a><br \/>\n2015-06-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jensmanuel\" target=\"_blank\">Jens Manuel Krogstad<\/a><\/strong>, Writer\/Editor, Hispanic Trends Project<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/17\/hawaii-is-home-to-the-nations-largest-share-of-multiracial-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/files\/2015\/06\/FT_15.06.11_multiraceState_310px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of multiracial Americans is growing nationwide, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a>, it\u2019s nothing new. The Rainbow State \u2013 with its history of attracting immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world to work as farm laborers \u2013 stands far above the rest, with nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identifying as multiracial, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data. The next most-multiracial states are far behind: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alaska\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a> (8%) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a> (7%).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another way to look at how much Hawaii stands out: In terms of total population, Hawaii is one of the smallest (1.4 million people), ranking 40th out of 50 states. But when ranking states with the highest total multiracial population, the state ranks sixth, with more than 330,000.<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2015\/06\/11\/multiracial-in-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research survey<\/a> found that the number of multiracial Americans may be higher than the estimates from Census, which has estimated that 3% of the overall U.S. population \u2013 and 2.1% of the adult population \u2013 is multiracial. But taking into account how adults describe their own race as well as the racial backgrounds of their parents and grandparents \u2013 which the census does not do \u2013 Pew Research estimates that 6.9% of the U.S. adult population could be considered multiracial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2015\/06\/17\/hawaii-is-home-to-the-nations-largest-share-of-multiracial-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii is home to the nation\u2019s largest share of multiracial Americans Pew Research Center 2015-06-17 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer\/Editor, Hispanic Trends Project The number of multiracial Americans is growing nationwide, but in Hawaii, it\u2019s nothing new. The Rainbow State \u2013 with its history of attracting immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,20],"tags":[911,17180,3122],"class_list":["post-41613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hawaii","tag-jens-manuel-krogstad","tag-pew-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}