1. Texas. Number of Counties: 254. Texas, the largest of the 48 contiguous US states, is located in the south-central region, adjacent to the US-Mexico border.

There are 100 counties in the state, and the majority of people of color live in just nine of the counties. Harris lost North Carolina by 183,408 votes, and in those nine diverse counties, 760,283 ...

In the latest evidence of the effect Latin American immigrants are having on the United States, the number of U.S. counties that have turned majority Hispanic has doubled.New Census Bureau data ...

Using Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here's the map, with said counties shaded in. Below ...