Melting Pot Cities and Suburbs: Racial and Ethnic Change in Metro America in the 2000s, William H. Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution. “The historically sharp racial and ethnic divisions
between cities and suburbs in metropolitan America are more blurred than ever…An analysis of data from the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial censuses reveals that:

• Hispanics now outnumber blacks and represent the largest minority group in major American cities. The Hispanic share of population rose in all primary cities of the largest 100 metropolitan areas from 2000 to 2010. Across all cities in 2010, 41 percent of residents were white, 26 percent were Hispanic, and 22 percent were black.
• Well over half of America’s cities are now majority non-white. Primary cities in 58 metropolitan areas were “majority minority” in 2010, up from 43 in 2000. Cities lost only about half as many whites in the 2000s as in the 1990s, but “black flight” from cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and Detroit accelerated in the 2000s.
• Minorities represent 35 percent of suburban residents, similar to their share of overall U.S. population. Among the 100 largest metro areas, 36 feature “melting pot” suburbs where at least 35 percent of residents are non-white. The suburbs of Houston, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. became majority minority in the 2000s.”