California

California is the third-largest U.S. state by area and the largest by population. The population of California in 2010 was 37,253,956, a 10 percent increase from 2000. California has an ethnically diverse population that is 57.6 percent white, 13 percent Asian, and 6.2 percent African American, with smaller numbers of other ethnic groups and people reporting multiple ethnicities; 37.6 percent of the population identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino (a person of any race can be of Hispanic or Latino origin), 26.8 percent were foreign ...