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Mainah888 t1_j8jk8lu wrote

Mixed what?

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New-Work-139 OP t1_j8jkzjq wrote

Mixed race. It’s a legitimate term for a person who identifies racially as multiple races. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/fedreg_race-ethnicity

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Mainah888 t1_j8jm2a1 wrote

I'm aware, but what races?

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justlikethewwdove t1_j8k69tj wrote

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/state-by-state/maine-population-change-between-census-decade.html

There's no elegant breakdown of the data but the best way to get a sense of it is by choosing the "[race] in combination" drop down at the Census link above for each race/ethnicity. The two largest non-white ones reported with others are Native at almost 2% and Black at about 1%. Total mixed is 4.7% and white in combo is 4.6% which means the vast majority of mixed are white and something else -- makes sense given Northern New England has been the whitest part of the country for a very long time.

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meowmix778 t1_j8jph2v wrote

More than two.

I'm half white and half puerto rican. I'm mixed. My best friend is half black and half vietnamese. He is mixed.

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fridaycat t1_j8k7oco wrote

Puerto Rican is not a race. It is an ethnicity.

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Mainah888 t1_j8jss69 wrote

No shit. Jesus.

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sharklar t1_j8kgh5o wrote

Ouch , don't let em hate . I get what you're saying. And honestly people from the Caribbean and all of Central and South America are perhaps the most mixed because of Europeans taking what they wanted.

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Simon_Jester88 t1_j8ke0gd wrote

French-Canadians

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Mainah888 t1_j8kfeeu wrote

Serious answer. If you looked at my family genealogy and adjacent, you'd see that to be true.

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ethan52695 t1_j8jx6sl wrote

If I had to guess it’s something to do with the fact that Vermont and Maine are the whitest states in the U.S, so I would assume that’s it’s probably people who are white and some other race. I know I grew up near Indian island and I’m sure all of those people would all identify as mixed race even though the vast majority are white passing (not that I’m saying there is anything wrong with being white passing and identifying as another race).

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