The New York Times carried an eye-catching article on America’s changing ethnic makeup.

The US Census Bureau reported on this trend. The Census Bureau considered:
• the relative proportion of “minorities,” a term grouping ethnic Hispanics, African-Americans, Asians, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians (in other words everyone other than non-Hispanic Europeans),
• in each county in the United States, the county being the basic administrative subdivision of each of the 50 states, with counties in the east generally being smaller or more compact than counties in the west.

When considered in this way, some of the most populous counties in the US turn out to be “majority-minority”, a confusing term of art meaning that most of their residents identify with a minority group. These counties (with the major city indicated parenthetically when unfamiliar) include:
• Much of New York City: Bronx, Queens, and Kings (Brooklyn);
• Cook (Chicago), Illinois, with the largest African-American population (1.4 million) in the country;
• Los Angeles, which has the largest minority population of any county in the country (7 million), the largest Asian and American Indian populations, and also the largest population (2.9 million) of non-Hispanic Europeans;
• Elsewhere in California: San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, and Santa Clara (San Jose);
• In Texas: Dallas, Harris (Houston), and Bexar (San Antonio);
• Miami-Dade, Florida;
• Maricopa (Phoenix), Arizona.

When you visit big cities or growing cities in America, you’ll likely encounter ethnically diverse residents.