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Lower Plains: Kansas, Nebraska

Fans cheer at a University of Nebraska football game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. The 87,000- seat stadium has sold out more than 340 consecutive games. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of college football’s most storied football programs and have won five national championships.

national average. However, Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the state. Over the next three and a half decades, their numbers are expected to more than triple, reaching a projected 24 percent of the total population by 2050. Currently, German Americans make up Nebraska’s largest ethnic group, followed by Irish and English.

2010 Census, white Nebraskans make up 89.7 percent of the state’s total population. That’s 12 percent higher than the national average. Just 2 per- cent of Nebraskans are Asian, com- pared to 5.3 percent for the U.S. as a whole. Nebraskans of Hispanic or Latino heritage make up 9.2 percent of the state’s population—almost half the