Nicknamed the "Empire State,"
New York boasts the fourth-largest population in the United States, with 20,448,194 people (6.06% of the U.S. total) as of 2023. Nearly half of all New York residents live in New York City, the largest city in the United States (and 41st-largest in the world), home to 8,992,908 people—a higher population than 39 of the 50 U.S. states. Albany, the capital of New York, has a population of 98,469 people, making it the sixth-most-populous city in the State.
New York has the largest Jewish population of any U.S. state by both percentage (9.1%) and number (1.77 million). Perhaps more surprisingly, New York suffered the most Civil War casualties of any state and is also home to the fourth-highest number of Hispanic residents of any state in the U.S. The other four states are in the top five: California, Texas, Florida, and Arizona.
New York, one of the 13 original colonies, joined the Union in July 1788. However, due to an internal dispute, the State did not choose electors in the first election. In the 1810 Census, New York became the nation's most populous State and had the most electoral votes from the 1812 election until the 1972 election, when it relinquished that distinction to California.
Like many other Northeastern states, New York's electoral clout has recently diminished. In each Census from 1950 through 2010, it lost at least two. In 2020, it lost one, although that almost didn't happen. Texas surpassed New York in electoral votes in 2004, and Florida did so after 2020. New York has been primarily a "blue" state since the Great Depression, only siding with a losing Republican when it chose its then-current governor, Thomas E. Dewey, over Harry S. Truman in 1948. It has voted Democratic in the last nine elections, six of those by a 20% margin. That includes 2020, when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by 23%.
With such a diverse population, New York State also has many religions that are practiced within it. Seventy percent of its inhabitants are Christians, including 39% Roman Catholic, 7% Baptist, 6% Methodist and 2% Pentecostal among the dominant believers. Other significant religions include Judaism (9%), Islam (6%), and Buddhism (1%), while 17% of New York's inhabitants have no set religious ideologies to follow.
People from all races and creeds live in the State of New York, and the different ethnic identities have led to a rich cultural diversity in this region. As more people enter New York for jobs and other opportunities, this diversity will only grow, giving New York a richer cultural identity than it already fosters.
New York officially reports a rich ethnic diversity, as people from over 200 nationalities were part of New York.
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of New York was:
White: 60.73%
Black or African American: 15.21%
Other race: 8.99%
Asian: 8.65%
Two or more races: 5.97%
Native American: 0.42%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.05%
Muslims are under one million.
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