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===Demographics=== [[African Americans]] made up approximately 70% of Jonestown's population.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XuKB_2ll27wC&dq=%22Demographics+and+the+Black+Religious+Culture+of+Peoples+Temple%2C%22+in+Peoples+Temple+and+Black+Religion+in+America&pg=PA57 "Demographics and the Black Religious Culture of Peoples Temple," in Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America], edited by Rebecca Moore, Anthony Pinn and Mary Sawyer (Bloomington: Indiana Press University, 2005), p. 59.</ref> 45% of Jonestown residents were black women.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XuKB_2ll27wC&q=%22Demographics+and+the+Black+Religious+Culture+of+Peoples+Temple,%22+in+Peoples+Temple+and+Black+Religion+in+America&pg=PA57|title=Peoples Temple and Black Religion in America|last1=Moore|first1=Rebecca|last2=Pinn|first2=Anthony B|last3=Sawyer|first3=Mary R|date= 2004|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253110831|page=58|language=en}}</ref> {|class="wikitable" |+ Jonestown Demographic Breakdown, 1977<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35666|title=The Demographics of Jonestown β Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple |access-date=March 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315114200/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35666|archive-date=15 March 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Figure-3.pdf|title=Figure 3 |access-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328040922/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Figure-3.pdf|archive-date=28 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |- ! ! Female ! Male ! Total |- ! Black | style="text-align: right;" | 460 | style="text-align: right;" | 231 | style="text-align: right;" | '''691''' |- ! White | style="text-align: right;" | 138 | style="text-align: right;" | 108 | style="text-align: right;" | '''246''' |- ! Mixed | style="text-align: right;" | 27 | style="text-align: right;" | 12 | style="text-align: right;" | '''39''' |- ! Other | style="text-align: right;" | 13 | style="text-align: right;" | 10 | style="text-align: right;" | '''23''' |- ! Total | style="text-align: right;" | '''638''' | style="text-align: right;" | '''361''' | style="text-align: right;" | '''999''' |- |} <!-- This is my first wiki table... original text below, however note that one of the percentage values shown below is incorrect. --ashleedawg * Black female = 460 (45%) * Black male = 231 (23%) * White female = 138 (13%) * White male = 108 (11%) * Mixed female = 27 (3%) * Mixed male = 12 (1%) * Other female = 13 (1%) * Other male = 10 (1%)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35666|title=Archived copy|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315114200/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=35666|archive-date=15 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Figure-3.pdf|title=Archived copy|access-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328040922/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Figure-3.pdf|archive-date=28 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> -->
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