Black/African American vs Houma Receiving Food Stamps

The statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 562,963,519 people shows a near-perfect positive correlation between the proportion of Blacks/African Americans and percentage of population receiving government assistance and/or food stamps in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.909 and weighted average of 17.2%. Similarly, the statistical analysis conducted on geographies consisting of 36,773,946 people shows a substantial positive correlation between the proportion of Houma and percentage of population receiving government assistance and/or food stamps in the United States with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.581 and weighted average of 16.5%, a difference of 4.3%.

In terms of receiving food stamps, the demographic groups most similar to Blacks/African Americans are Menominee (17.2%, a difference of 0.17%), Immigrants from St. Vincent and the Grenadines (17.2%, a difference of 0.35%), Immigrants from Nicaragua (17.2%, a difference of 0.43%), Central American Indian (17.1%, a difference of 0.53%), and Native/Alaskan (17.3%, a difference of 0.62%). Similarly, the demographic groups most similar to Houma are Barbadian (16.5%, a difference of 0.26%), Jamaican (16.4%, a difference of 0.29%), Immigrants from the Azores (16.4%, a difference of 0.35%), U.S. Virgin Islander (16.5%, a difference of 0.50%), and Immigrants from Barbados (16.6%, a difference of 1.1%).