Black Buying Power Tables and Text
Table 2
Percentage Change in Black Buying Power and Rank of Percentage Change, 1990-1999, by State
| Area | Percentage Change in Total
Buying Power 1990-99 |
Rank* | Area | Percentage Change in Total Buying Power1990-99 |
Rank* |
| United States | 72.9 | -- | Missouri | 73.6 | 28 |
| Montana | 95.1 | 16 | |||
| Alabama | 71.3 | 33 | Nebraska | 84.6 | 22 |
| Alaska | 38.4 | 50 | Nevada | 147.0 | 6 |
| Arizona | 124.0 | 9 | New Hampshire | 71.0 | 36 |
| Arkansas | 73.4 | 29 | New Jersey | 67.3 | 40 |
| California | 48.7 | 49 | New Mexico | 120.8 | 10 |
| Colorado | 98.3 | 13 | New York | 62.9 | 46 |
| Connecticut | 66.8 | 41 | North Carolina | 83.3 | 24 |
| Delaware | 93.3 | 17 | North Dakota | 149.4 | 4 |
| District of Columbia | 26.2 | 51 | Ohio | 71.1 | 35 |
| Florida | 98.1 | 14 | Oklahoma | 65.9 | 44 |
| Georgia | 93.3 | 18 | Oregon | 109.1 | 11 |
| Hawaii | 80.1 | 25 | Pennsylvania | 63.3 | 45 |
| Idaho | 200.5 | 1 | Rhode Island | 71.2 | 34 |
| Illinois | 69.1 | 39 | South Carolina | 69.3 | 38 |
| Indiana | 72.3 | 32 | South Dakota | 194.7 | 2 |
| Iowa | 90.3 | 19 | Tennessee | 83.4 | 23 |
| Kansas | 66.1 | 43 | Texas | 89.3 | 21 |
| Kentucky | 69.3 | 37 | Utah | 147.5 | 5 |
| Louisiana | 72.8 | 31 | Vermont | 163.0 | 3 |
| Maine | 58.3 | 47 | Virginia | 73.1 | 30 |
| Maryland | 74.7 | 27 | Washington | 100.0 | 12 |
| Massachusetts | 89.7 | 20 | West Virginia | 54.5 | 48 |
| Michigan | 66.7 | 42 | Wisconsin | 95.9 | 15 |
| Minnesota | 131.1 | 7 | Wyoming | 129.9 | 8 |
| Mississippi | 79.2 | 26 |
* Ranked from largest to smallest % change.
Source: The Selig Center for Economic Growth, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia, 1998.