Well I am from the Midwest ~ Chicago. I grew up on the Southeast side and there were some mixed people but they were few and far between, maybe 5% of the population. Half of those people were part of my family, lol. The neighborhood I grew up in was predominantly blacks, puerto ricans, and mexicans, some whites. My fiance and his family settled up North (Chicago) when he was a boy and at least 40% of the people up there are mixed. ALL my fiance's childhood and friends from H.S. are mostly mixed. Not just Black/White but Black/Asian, Black/PR, White/Mex, Mex/Black, Native American/Black and the list goes on and on...Now that we are getting older several of them have had kids w/ other mulattos just like us. Our kids could fill up a small city, lol and they are all MGM's ( Mulattos, Quadroons, even some Octoroons).