Original sentence: African-Americans, totaled 5,929,968, or 6.5%--lower than the national proportion (12.8%).Asians, important from the very beginning in the history of the West, totaled 5,161,446, or 5.6%, with most living in the Far West.In the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau included the state with the second largest Hispanic population, Texas, in the South, included the state with the second largest American Indian population, Oklahoma, also in the South, and included the Dakotas, with their large populations of Plains Indians, in with the Midwest.Some feel geographers that the demographics for the West are complicated because the  United States Census Bureau uses only one of several possible definitions of the West in its reporting system.Statistics from the 2000 United States Census, adjusted to include the second tier of States west of the Mississippi, show that under that defintion the West would have a population of 91,457,662, including 1,611,447 Indians, or 1.8% of the total, and 22,377,288 Hispanics (the majority Mexican), or 24.5% of the total
Edited sentence: Asians, important from the very beginning in the history of the West, totaled 5,161,446, or 5.6%, with most, not surprisingly, living in the Far West.Blacks, whose contributions to the West are well documented, totaled 5,929,968, or 6.5%--lower than the national proportion (12.8%).In the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau included the state with the second largest Hispanic population, Texas, in the South region, included the state with the second largest American Indian population, Oklahoma, also in the South, and included the Dakotas, with their large populations of Plains Indians, in with the Midwest region.Statistics from the 2000 United States Census show the seventeen states in the West had a population of 91,457,662, including 1,611,447 Indians, or 1.8% of the total, and 22,377,288 Hispanics (the majority Mexican), or 24.5% of the total.The demographics for the West are complicated by United States Census Bureau's reporting system