What is African Americans?
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2021}} {{See also|African immigration to the United States}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = African Americans | image = African Americans by state.svg | image_caption = Proportion of African Americans in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census | pop = '''46,936,733''' (2020)<ref name=2020USCensus>https://census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007112207/https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/race-and-ethnicity-in-the-united-state-2010-and-2020-census.html |date=2021-10-07 }}. 2020 U.S. Census</ref><br/>14.2% of the total U.S. population (2020)<ref name=2020USCensus/><br/>'''41,104,200''' (2020) (one race)<ref name=2020USCensus/><br />12.4% of the total U.S. population (2020)<ref name=2020USCensus/> | popplace = | region1 = Texas | pop1 = 3,552,997 | ref1 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blackdemographics.com/population/black-state-population/|title=Black Population by State}}</ref> | region2 = Georgia | pop2 = 3,320,513 | region3 = Florida | pop3 = 3,246,381 | region4 = New York | pop4 = 2,986,172 | region5 = North Carolina | pop5 = 2,140,217 | region6 = Maryland | pop6 = 1,820,472 | region7 = Illinois | pop7 = 1,808,271 | region8 = Virginia | pop8 = 1,607,581 | region9 = Ohio | pop9 = 1,478,781 | region10 = Louisiana | pop10 = 1,464,023 | region11 = Pennsylvania | pop11 = 1,423,169 | region12 = Michigan | pop12 = 1,376,579 | region13 = Alabama | pop13 = 1,296,162 | languages = English {{small|([[American English|American English dialects]], [[African-American English]])}}<br />[[Louisiana Creole]]<br />[[Gullah language|Gullah Creole English]]<br />[[African languages]] | religions = Predominantly [[Protestant]] (71 %) including [[Black churches|Historically Black Protestant]] (53%), [[Evangelical Protestant]] (14%), and [[Mainline Pro