And behold: the current standard of $16,600 defines a needy population of precisely 13 percent.

But Washington state moved into second place with a Swedish-American population of almost 5 percent.

It is 48 percent white, with a significant Hispanic population of 35 percent and a growing Asian community.

The county has an Indian population of only 0.8 percent.

That leaves the city of 776,733 with a black population of 8.6 percent.

Race is not a factor - each town has a white population of 95 percent or more - but they have separate school districts for K-8 pupils.

Indian amateur radio operators number just 16,000 for a population of 1.2 billion, or less than 0.002 percent of the population.

Of the nine districts with black or Hispanic representatives, none has a minority-group population of less than 81 percent.

But the city has an Asian population of only 2 percent compared with a national projection of 6 percent for 2022.

But in a country with a nonwhite population of almost 30 percent, the incremental progress leaves some people unimpressed.