Editing Tennessee (section)

===Ethnicity===
{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Ethnic composition as of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]]
|-
! Race and Ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html |title=Race and Ethnicity in the United States: 2010 Census and 2020 Census |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=August 12, 2021 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Alone
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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| [[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White (non-Hispanic)]]
|align=right| {{bartable|70.9|%|2||background:gray}}
|align=right| {{bartable|74.6|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| [[African Americans|African American (non-Hispanic)]]
|align=right| {{bartable|15.7|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|align=right| {{bartable|17.0|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]]{{efn|Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin are not distinguished between total and partial ancestry.}}
|align=right| {{bartable}}
|align=right| {{bartable|6.9|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|1.9|%|2||background:purple}}
|align=right| {{bartable|2.5|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]
|align=right| {{bartable|0.2|%|2||background:gold}}
|align=right| {{bartable|2.0|%|2||background:gold}}
|-
| [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]]
|align=right| {{bartable|0.1|%|2||background:pink}}
|align=right| {{bartable|0.1|%|2||background:pink}}
|-
| Other
|align=right| {{bartable|0.1|%|2||background:brown}}
|align=right| {{bartable|0.3|%|2||background:brown}}
|}
[[File:Tennessee Counties by race (2020 census).svg|thumb|302x302px|Map of counties in Tennessee by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census{{Collapsible list
| title = Legend|{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}

'''Non-Hispanic White'''

{{legend|#cc4125|50–60%}}

{{legend|#a61c00|60–70%}}

{{legend|#85200c|70–80%}}

{{legend|#5b0f00|80–90%}}

{{legend|#410b00|90%+}}

{{col-2}}

'''Black or African American'''

{{legend|#ffd966|50–60%}}

{{col-end}}
}}]]
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! Historical racial composition !! 1940<ref name=historicaldemographics/> !! 1970<ref name=historicaldemographics/> !! 1990<ref name=historicaldemographics>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/twps0056.html |title=Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For The United States, Regions, Divisions, and States |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224151538/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/twps0056.html |archive-date=December 24, 2014}}</ref>!! 2000{{efn|This was the first census that allowed respondents to select more than one race.}}<ref name="censviewer">{{cite web |url=http://censusviewer.com/state/TN |title=Population of Tennessee: Census 2010 and 2000 Interactive Map, Demographics, Statistics, Quick Facts |publisher=Census Viewer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225031555/http://censusviewer.com/state/TN |archive-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref>!! 2010<ref name="censviewer" />!! 2020<ref name="2020DP1"/>
|-
| [[White Americans|White]] || 82.5% || 83.9% || 83.0% || 80.2% || 77.6% || 72.2%
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]] || 17.4% || 15.8% || 16.0% || 16.4% || 16.7% || 15.8%
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]] || - || 0.1% || 0.7% || 1.0% || 1.4% || 2.0%
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| [[Native Americans in the United States|Native]] || - || 0.1% || 0.2% || 0.3% || 0.3% || 0.4%
|-
| [[Native Hawaiian]] and<br />[[Pacific Islander|other Pacific Islander]] || - || - || – || – || 0.1% || 0.1%
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| [[Race and ethnicity in the United States Census|Other race]] || - || - || 0.2% || 1.0% || 2.2% || 3.6%
|-
| [[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races]] || - || - || – || 1.1% || 1.7% || 6.0%
|}

In 2020, 6.9% of the total population was of Hispanic or Latino origin (of any race), up from 4.6% in 2010. Between 2000 and 2010, Tennessee's Hispanic population grew by 134.2%, the third-highest rate of any state.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-04.pdf|title=The Hispanic Population: 2010|author=<!--Not stated-->|date=May 2011|website=census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=June 4, 2020}}</ref> In 2020, [[Non-Hispanic or Latino Whites]] were 70.9% of the population, compared to 57.7% of the population nationwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade.2020.html |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |title=2010 U.S. Census website |access-date=September 20, 2021}}</ref> In 2010, the five most common self-reported ethnic groups in the state were [[American ancestry|American]] (26.5%), [[English ancestry|English]] (8.2%), [[Irish ancestry|Irish]] (6.6%), [[German ancestry|German]] (5.5%), and [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scotch-Irish]] (2.7%).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Tennessee%20ancestry&g=0400000US47&hidePreview=false&tid=ACSDT5Y2010.B04004&t=Ancestry&vintage=2018&layer=VT_2018_040_00_PY_D1&cid=B04004_001E|title=People Reporting Single Ancestry|author=<!--Not stated-->|website=data.census.gov|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=June 10, 2020}}</ref> Most Tennesseans who self-identify as having [[American ancestry]] are of [[English American|English]] and [[Scotch-Irish American|Scotch-Irish]] ancestry. An estimated 21–24% of Tennesseans are of predominantly [[English American|English]] ancestry.<ref name="Fischer1989">{{cite book |title=Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |first=David Hackett |last=Fischer |author-link=David Hackett Fischer |year=1989 |pages=633–639 |isbn=978-0-19-503794-4 |title-link=Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/sharingdreamwhit00pule |url-access=registration |title=Sharing the Dream: White Males in a Multicultural America |publisher=Continuum |location=New York |first=Dominic J. |last=Pulera |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sharingdreamwhit00pule/page/57 57] |isbn=978-0-8264-1643-8 |access-date=October 17, 2015 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>