Bernie wins the states with the most mixed races (as in people with 2 or more races).
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Sadly there is not as much of a mixed population as there should be in the US, but when filling out some tables noticed that the top 9 states were almost all Bernie Sanders states, (17%-3% are all mostly for Bernie).
Here I added the image so people would stop and read, and not just post for the twentieth time something about state demographics and not a person who is a mixed race person.
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity/
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Hardly any states are as white as it. 
You're real birth parents where really both white males. 
Response to oberliner (Reply #9)
Response to Agschmid (Reply #11)
Here are the top 10 most mixed States (States with the lowest % of white residents) from your source:
Of the 10, only Hawaii went for Sanders.
4 of the 10 haven't voted yet.
The other 5 have gone for Clinton.
Sid
Perhaps you don't understand "MIXED", but it happens when two people from two groups get together and have a child. What you are talking about is not a person who is mixed, but a nonhomogeneous mixture of groups. You can have a place compsed of many groups, but if they are not mixing, then that could be a sign of some sort of a divide or barrier preventing it.
I think I'm pretty sure I know you're addressing me.
And I'd say 10% or so to be significant.
Is a D in school...and the US average in in the 70% range I think, so it would be more apt to say it is more white. If I told my mom I did fairly well on a test and got 68%, she would have beat me.
Also I am sure this has to do with how well people identify with both sides of the families. I am sure statically black people are far more likely to claim black vs mixed (because of the one drop rule and all of its bad history). But that is my bias, and I could be wrong.
Left coast
by nature
You think that we should all be genetically undiverse, a bunch of family trees that knot in to themselves? You think that it is good that in several stats that have large populations of diverse groups we should see the lowest number of multi race groups (Texas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Mississippi, South Carolina)? To me this is bad, this is an indication of some sort of human social barrier. As people have said, New York is not a Melting Pot, it is more a of a salad...people are in there together, but seldom stray outside (it is getting better now and the city is listed as one of the better places like Seattle). There is nothing good that comes from a polarized or separated group. Listen to Trevor talk about as a kid how he could not walk with his father. Think of the people that show up with the mixed children at schools and the staff do not believe it is that person's kid and treat them with suspicion, it happens to me if I am babysitting for family member and some white dude shows up with a kid way darker than him at the museum or park. This should not be a got to, people need to be more diverse. Cops would have a harder time singling out people if we were all more interconnected. Plus genetically, never good to keep your gene pool too shallow.
This is an amazing source of data, very nice read.
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/16/the-rise-of-intermarriage/
Here are some parts of it..
Regional differences. Intermarriage in the United States tilts West. About one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity between 2008 and 2010, compared with 14% in the South, 13% in the Northeast and 11% in the Midwest. At the state level, more than four-in-ten (42%) newlyweds in Hawaii between 2008 and 2010 were intermarried; the other states with an intermarriage rate of 20% or more are all west of the Mississippi River. (For rates of intermarriage as well as intra-marriage in all 50 states, see Appendix 2.)
Is more intermarriage good for society? More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) say that more people of different races marrying each other has been a change for the better in our society, while 11% say it has been a change for the worse and 44% say it has made no difference. Minorities, younger adults, the college-educated, those who describe themselves as liberal and those who live in the Northeast or the West are more disposed than others to see intermarriage in a positive light.
One side note is that mixed marriages have a slightly higher divorce rate, and that is partially due to the stress they go through. The first time a racist in my family said something bad, my wife cried for days. I disowned that person but she never fully got over it.
Several studies using government data have found that overall divorce rates are higher for couples who married out than for those who married in—but here, too, the patterns vary by the racial and gender characteristics of the couples. An analysis conducted a decade ago found that 10 years after they married, interracial couples had a 41% chance of separation or divorce, compared with a 31% chance among couples who married within their race, according to a study based on the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).7 A subsequent study which analyzed 2002 NSFG data found that “although interracial marriages overall are more vulnerable to divorce, this reflects the experience of some but not all couples.” It found that after 10 years of marriage, interracial marriages that are most vulnerable to divorce involve white females and non-White males (with the exception of white females/ Hispanic white males) relative to white/white couples. Conversely, there is little or no difference in divorce rates among white men/non-white women couples, and white men/black women couples are actually substantially less likely than white/white couples to divorce by the 10th year of marriage. 8 Another study using 1990 to 2001 data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) suggests that on the whole, interracial marriages are less stable than samerace/ethnicity marriages, but marital dissolution was found to be strongly associated with the race or ethnicity of the individuals in the union. The authors found that “the results failed to provide evidence that interracial marriage per se is associated with an elevated risk of marital dissolution.”9 Mixed marriages involving blacks and whites were the least stable followed by Hispanics-white couples, whereas mixed marriages involving Asians and whites were even more stable than same-race white marriages.
Bigger question is do you think we should not be more mixed?
People seemed to come off attacking this statistic the whole thread, so it is hard to not read negatively. But I asked because I was not sure. There is a bunch of negative vibes floating around this election. But I think I was also getting at why would you even need to ask, why would mixing not be a good thing? I can name so many reasons to do it (if you are attracted, I am not insinuating some weird brave new world test tube thing), I just can't think of a reason not to. Besides don't many scientist think that in a few hundred years we will all be way more mixed.
