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<p>February 10, 2023 9:32 am</p>
<p>Last Updated: February 10, 2023 9:32 am</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 1960s, Americans marched, sat, and boycotted to protest segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement of Black Americans. The resulting Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation, but it was harder to change centuries of rooted racism and practices. To this day, America’s structural racism remains intact, reinforcing substantial racial inequalities across the United States.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In recent years, Americans have again taken to the streets to protest racial inequality, calling attention to the racial achievement gaps that persist in cities and states across the country. To determine the worst states for Black Americans, Darlinez News. used census and other agencies data to create an index that measures racial gaps in income, poverty, education, homeownership, and opportunity in all 50 states. It is important to note that this list does not rank the states based on the absolute socioeconomic conditions of Black Americans, but rather based on the socioeconomic gaps between the white and Black population in each state.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nationwide, the typical black household earns just 63.1% of what the typical white household earns a year. Black Americans are more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line or be unemployed as white Americans and are nearly five times as likely to be incarcerated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In some states, the racial gaps are far more pronounced. In Wisconsin, for example, the Black median household income is 49.9% of the white median household income — the largest income disparity of any state. Similarly, the disparities in poverty, mortality, educational attainment, homeownership, unemployment, and incarceration levels are some of the largest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A bulk of the worst states for Black Americans are in the Midwest, where millions of Black Americans moved during the Great Migration of the early 20th century. Today, many areas in the Midwest are in economic decline that disproportionately affects minority workers. (Here are </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">cities with the most Black-owned businesses</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the biggest factors reinforcing racial inequality in the U.S. today is de facto residential segregation. While the Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and religion, the legacy of redlining and other discriminatory housing policies, which effectively segregated Black Americans to certain neighborhoods, continue to shape the demographic composition of neighborhoods into the 21st century, limiting opportunities for Black Americans and widening achievement gaps by race. (Also see, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the worst cities for Black Americans</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Click here to see the worst states for Black Americans.</strong></span><br /><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Click here to read our detailed methodology.</strong></span></p>
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The Worst States For Black Americans – Darlinez News.
