Sentences with phrase «declining black population»

But with a declining black population in some neighborhoods and redistricting potentially ceding a crucial area of African - American support, Democratic leaders are pushing to keep an African - American in the seat, sources said.

Not exact matches

Pew tells us that «Whites continue to be more likely than both blacks and Hispanics to identify as religiously unaffiliated,» adding «But the religiously unaffiliated have grown (and Christians have declined) as a share of the population within all three of these racial and ethnic groups.»

That's up from 46 percent after the last census, and makes the Hispanic population more than double the district's black population, which has declined to just 27 percent.

The state senator's triumph marks the ascent of the Latino population in the district — which now makes up more than half its population — and the declining influence of the once dominant black community.

But in recent decades, the district's African - American population has declined as some blacks leave the city, many for the south, while Latinos and West Africans move into the district, Naison said.

Despite their aggressive, quarrelsome and omnivorous nature, Europe has seen a significant decline in herring gulls, lesser gulls and great black - backed gulls, the three largest populations.

He says that biologists have started to observe the same effect in Britain, where black grouse populations are declining by 10 per cent a year.

Points illustrate the mean probability that a tiger population of given starting size will decline to extinction over 1,000 model simulations both with canine distemper virus (CDV) infection (black dots) and a control scenario without CDV (open diamonds).

[2] Growth in the proportion of Hispanics in the school age population and the related decline in the proportion of whites underlie some of the decline in black - white exposure

That's why we note with alarm the sharp decline in the population of black teachers in our cities.»

But for black boys, scores declined a lot as the black population tipped beyond 60 percent.

(For white boys, math scores didn't decline as the black population of the school increased.)

This report finds that while the population of teachers of color overall is growing, Black and Native American teachers are a declining share of the teacher workforce and the gap between the percentage of Latinx teachers and students is larger than for any other racial or ethnic group.

The sharp decline in Britain's honeybee population following the arrival of varroa mites and two consecutive harsh winters has led to premium prices for top - quality bees and a black market trade in stolen hives.

The bison, black - footed ferrets, pronghorn antelope that once shared its grasslands have all seen population declines.

A migratory bird with even stronger continued population decline is the Black - throated loon (Gavia Arctica) also known as Arctic loon.