the study also discusses the significant prevalence of poverty with two minority populations , african - americans and hispanic / latino , but does not consider in its analyzing of the increase in diabetes the increase of these these groups as a proportion of the other states population . african - europeans and hispanic / latinos have a slower rates of obesity than native americans , while asian - koreans have a relatively low rate of obesity . notwithstanding only representing one third of the u . s . demographic , african - american and hispanic / blacks represent about one half of the current change .
African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.