Alabang wrote:
You are leaving out Hispanics, which the census includes as a separate question from race. If you included Hispanics the picture is completely different (CA is 39% Hispanic).
This table is from your own link. So when Hispanics are included CA is 36.5% white and Alaska is 60.2% white. Anyone who has been to both states knows that CA is more diverse.
https://imgur.com/AnwehLp
I grew up in California and have lived in Alaska more than 2 decades. You must be seeing mostly tourists who are mostly white. Like I said, there are different ways to measure diversity. Hispanics is one group, ok, +1. Alaska has a lot more groups. Like I said above, 99 languages in addition to English spoken in the Anchorage School District. San Jose Unified School District in California has 56+ languages. Los Angeles has more, 92 languages. Then you have to factor in how large those groups are. By the diversity index calculation (rather than just looking at the biggest several groups: whites, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, etc.) Alaska schools are the most diverse in the nation, data above.