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Demographics
The racial makeup of the state is:
88.0% White
0.6% Black
1.4% Hispanic
8.3% Native American (Highest in Continental U.S.)
0.6% Asian
1.3% mixed race
The 5 largest ancestry groups in South Dakota are German (40.7%), Norwegian (15.3%), Irish (10.4%), American Indian (8.3%), English (7.1%).
Protestant – 67%
Roman Catholic – 25%
Other Christian – 2%
Other Religions – 1%
Non-Religious – 4%
The three largest Protestant denominations in South Dakota are: Lutheran (30% of the total state population), Methodist (11%), Baptist (6%).
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| People QuickFacts | South Dakota | USA |
Population, 2003 estimate |
764,309 | 290,809,777 |
| Population, percent change, April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2003 |
1.3% | 3.3% |
| Population, 2000 | 754,844 | 281,421,906 |
| Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 | 8.5% | 13.1% |
| Persons under 5 years old, percent, 2000 | 6.8% | 6.8% |
| Persons under 18 years old, percent, 2000 | 26.8% | 25.7% |
| Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000 | 14.3% | 12.4% |
| Female persons, percent, 2000 | 50.4% | 50.9% |
| Mortgage, Real Estate Demographics | South Dakota | USA |
Housing units, 2002 |
332,360 | 119,302,132 |
| Homeownership rate, 2000 |
68.2% | 66.2% |
| Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2000 | 18.9% | 26.4% |
| Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2000 | $79,600 | $119,600 |
| Households, 2000 | 290,245 | 105,480,101 |
| Persons per household, 2000 | 2.50 | 2.59 |
| Median household income, 1999 | $35,282 | $41,994 |
| Per capita money income, 1999 | $17,562 | $21,587 |
| Persons below poverty, percent, 1999 | 13.2% | 12.4% |
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South Dakota is a state in the high plains of the northern Middle West. It is named after the Lakota (Sioux) American Indian tribe.
Trivia
A bill for statehood for North and South Dakota (and Montana, and Washington) was passed on February 22, 1889 during the Administration of Grover Cleveland. It was left to his successor Benjamin Harrison to sign proclamations formally admitting North and South Dakota to the Union on November 2, 1889. However, the rivalry between the northern and southern territories presented a dilemma: only one, upon the President's signature on the proclamation, could gain the distinction of being admitted before the other. So Harrison directed his Secretary of State James Blaine to shuffle the papers and obscure from him which he was signing first, and the priority went unrecorded.
South Dakota license plates are numbered by county, with the first digit referring to the county of origin. Such a numbering system allows one to easily determine where the vehicle was registered. Counties 1-10 are ranked, roughly, by population. 11-67 are numbered alphabetically.
Harney Peak, in the Black Hills, is the highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the French Alps. More than 70,000 people hike to its 7,242 foot summit each year.
The deepest mine in the United States, the Homestake gold mine (now defunct), is in the Black Hills of South Dakota, near the town of Lead. Its shaft plunges more than 8,000 feet beneath the surface. From 1969 until 1993, it was home to the Homestake Chlorine Solar Neutrino Experiment, famous for detecting the solar neutrino problem. Currently there is pending legislation that would give the mine to the National Science Foundation for use as an underground research laboratory.
South Dakota is home to the largest indoor, naturally heated, swimming pool in the world. Evans Plunge, heated from natural mineral springs, is in Hot Springs.
The Black Hills of South Dakota was one of the sites considered for the permanent home of the United Nations.
The largest and most complete fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex ever found was uncovered near the city of Faith, in 1990. Named "Sue," the remains are over 90 percent complete.
Citibank rechartered itself as a South Dakota bank in 1981 to take advantage of a new law that set South Dakota's maximum permissible interest rate on loans to 25 percent, then the highest in the nation (New York had refused to raise its interest rate even after prolonged lobbying). However, South Dakota's dreams of becoming a major financial center were dashed when Delaware matched its move the next year, and banks in search of the right to charge high interest rates flocked to Delaware instead.
"Rural flight"
South Dakota, in common with five other Mid-West states (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Iowa), is feeling the brunt of falling populations. 89% of the total number of cities in those states have fewer than 3000 people; hundreds have fewer than than 1000. Between 1996 and 2004 almost half a million people, nearly half with college degrees, left the six states. "Rural flight" as it is called has led to offers of free land and tax breaks as enticements to newcomers.
Capital: Pierre
Major Metro: Sioux Falls
Smaller Cities: Aberdeen | Brookings | Huron | Mitchell | Pierre | Rapid City | Spearfish | Vermillion | Watertown | Yankton
Counties: Aurora | Beadle | Bennett | Bon Homme | Brookings | Brown | Brule | Buffalo | Butte | Campbell | Charles Mix | Clark | Clay | Codington | Corson | Custer | Davison | Day | Deuel | Dewey | Douglas | Edmunds | Fall River | Faulk | Grant | Gregory | Haakon | Hamlin | Hand | Hanson | Harding | Hughes | Hutchinson | Hyde | Jackson | Jerauld | Jones | Kingsbury | Lake | Lawrence | Lincoln | Lyman | Marshall | McCook | McPherson | Meade | Mellette | Miner | Minnehaha | Moody | Pennington | Perkins | Potter | Roberts | Sanborn | Shannon | Spink | Stanley | Sully | Todd | Tripp | Turner | Union | Walworth | Yankton | Ziebach