1.   Americans blacks are now outnumbered by Latin Americans at the major league level, and their representation in professional football and basketball is far greater than in baseball.

2.   And by the turn of the century, experts say, Hispanic people will outnumber blacks in both that neighborhood and the county.

3.   For the first time, Hispanic voters outnumbered blacks.

4.   Heim also saw little local significance in a Census Bureau finding that Hispanics now outnumber blacks for the first time nationwide.

5.   In California and Texas, they now outnumber blacks.

6.   In Florida, Hispanics now outnumber blacks, and in California, the largest state, they outnumber blacks and make up one-third of the population.

7.   The increase in the Hispanic population parallels a national trend in which Hispanic residents now outnumber blacks in Los Angeles, Houston, Phoenix and San Diego.

8.   They appeared likely to outnumber blacks in the state as early as this year.

9.   Whites outnumber blacks seven-to-one across the county and three-to-one within the Akron city limits.