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Ethnic Economic Success?
Sowell calculated median income for US ethnic groups as of about 1970. Since then,
changes in the Census Bureau data have made it impossible to make similar calculations,
but it is possible to do so for “races”. Here are recent (2015) data, converted to an index
value, as Sowell did:
Asians
133
Non-Hispanic White 112
US average
100
Hispanic
77
Black
65
Compare these values with Sowell’s. Note that when Sowell did his research Mexicans
and Puerto Ricans were almost the only Hispanics in the US, while his “West Indian”
category probably included Jamaicans and Haitians, primarily. (In ...
