This Booth Newspapers Web news site carries a story from the Jackson Citizen Patriot that notes that an increasing number of minorities are making Jackson County their home. Census figures show that minority residents make up 11 percent of the population. " Michigan has long been a white-black state," said Kurt Metzger, a demographer at Wayne State University . "But mostly it has been a largely white state. In recent years, however. . . we've seen more diversity in the state."