[AntonioMQ]

I can't say for for sure the precise composition of Brazil, even though I have traveled around Brazil very much, far more than most people here have. Most people who come to our cities come to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, or São Paulo, in short, our large coastal cities, which gives an incomplete and partial view of the country. They pass it to others when they come back. Most Brazilians haven't traveled all over the country, so many of them have many misconceptions on how our country is like or what other regions look like.

Having said all this, from what I have seen the concentration of pred. SSA African looking individuals is in our coastal areas where they were most used in colonial times. Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, coastal Pernambuco, mining areas of Minas Gerais, coastal areas of Maranhão are the places where they are most likely to be found. People who would score 100% SSA African would be a very small minority, probably not even 1% or 2%. Pred. SSA African individuals are more common, but they are mainly restricted to the areas I mentioned above. Overall, they are large in absolute numbers but small in % since there are many people living in Central West, North and South Brazil, which have a very small number of pred. SSA African individuals IMO, not to mention many areas in the Southeast and the Northeast where pred. SSA African individuals are not that important, like in the interior of São Paulo state.



According to this study from 2011, with "pardo", "white" and "black" samples from all over the country, according to their respective proportions, Southern and Northern Brazil are about 90% non African, and the Southeast and the Northeast somewhere around 68% to 74% (the Northeast results are skewed with the inclusion of Bahia, which is significantly much more African than the other Northeastern Brazilian states). And by it I mean the African contribution to the genetic make-up of these populations.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0017063



---------- Post added 2012-03-18 at 14:17 ----------

Genetically, Brazilians as a whole have European, African and Native American ancestries, all of the categories, "whites", "pardos" and "blacks". Having said that, European ancestry is still more important than any other in São Paulo state (which has ~40 million people by the way). The ancestral make-up of São Paulo state according to a genetic study from 2006:

79% European
14% African
7% Amerindian
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...20474/abstract

I live in São Paulo (the biggest Brazilian city), it is mostly Pardo. Whites are common but in high-and middle classes]

---------- Post added 2012-03-18 at 14:19 ----------

Sure, that's what I invite you to do. Or else try to find pics of crowds of Brazilians who look overwhelmingly African in these regions: Northern Brazil, Central West Brazil, Southern Brazil, interior of São Paulo state, and also Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte and ParaÃ*ba (states in the Northeast of Brazil). You won't find them, since they are a very small minority there!

Interesting, that is why i always empathize visiting the country instead of going by photos from the internet..