The latest Census Bureau data drop delves into the specifics of Americans' racial and ethnic profiles Among white Americans, who comprise some 60 percent of the nation's total population, nearly 50million identify their background as English  Among the US black population, which has grown by more than five percent since 2010, only half identify as African American
See Details: Detailed new census data reveals half of the country's 50M black people say they're African American while a third of 130M white Americans describe their ethnic background as ENGLISH