Top 10 Most African-American U.S. States

Delaware, had no idea

Wilmington area is most of the population.

Slavery was still legal in Delaware at the start of the Civil War. They were one of four such states not to secede (the others being Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland).

Those states also officially banned slavery *after* the South, also tossing in West Virginia and Tennessee (since TN surrendered) by about two years. Of course some people probably ignored the leader of what they considered another country passing a law...

Wow. I didn't get Virginia and I'm from Virginia.

I was thinking it's probably mostly Richmond. I haven't spent a lot of time around Virginia Beach but I thought it was more diverse than that. I grew up in the NoVA DC suburbs and while some neighborhoods there have a lot of African Americans it's also an extremely diverse place. My college classrooms often looked like meetings at the UN, and high school was similar.

yeah, NoVA is super diverse. There's someone from every race up here. I think the majority of African Americans in Virginia are from the Hampton Roads area and Richmond.

Not really. Northern Virginia has a very large immigrant population.

These are many of the same voters that are subsidizing red Virginia. No matter how you put it, Loudoun, Fairfax, Prince William, and Henrico pay far more in taxes than they receive. Next time, be grateful for everything blue Virginia has given you.

There was the Great Migration which brought many blacks to northern industrial cities, but...like, when slavery ended it wasn't as if the freed slaves suddenly got wealth and mobility. Sharecropping and Jim Crow segregation led many to stay because they literally couldn't afford to do anything else.

Interestingly, I think I've heard that many Northern black people are starting to move back South, especially to big cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, etc. I don't know the details though so correct if I'm wrong.

Had absolutely no idea about Delaware.

Delaware was my first guess after the six or so that I knew for sure were right. I have no idea why. It just popped into my head. "I'll try this...oh, wow. So probably Maryland and Virginia too?...oh, nice."

LOL.

"There's black people in like ten places. Ain't no black people in Minnesota. Just Prince and Kirby Puckett."

How's Mississippi a red state when there are so many black people?

People don't vote based on their race. Believe it or not, you're still black if you vote for Trump or Jorgensen.

Cuotak wasn't implying you have to vote Democratic to "be black." The fact is that black Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic, so a state with a larger-than-average share of black voters might lean more democratic. According to Mississippi Today, top-line Democratic candidates get at least 88% of Mississippi's black vote, going up to as high as 95%. The answer to cuotak's question is that white voters still make up about 59% of the Mississippi electorate, and they are overwhelmingly conservative. (In fact, Donald Trump's share of Mississippi's vote in 2020 was...59%). It is true though that many "deep red" states have sizeable black populations. It's simply that the white populations are so close to uniformly conservative that their vote will continue to reign.

I’ve heard that 90% of white Mississippians vote republican and 90% of black Mississippians vote Democrat. There’s more white than black Mississippians so it ends up republican.

Not all black people are democratic you know, and not all white people are republican. In my opinion it is absurd to classify any one race as a certain political party.

We can read statistics and identify general trends. Saying that black people are statistically more likely to be Democratic is not saying that all black people are Democrats. In my opinion it is absurd to conflate reaching an obvious conclusion based on clear data with making classifications about an entire race.

when did this become political?

Is the photo someone famous? I clicked on it and it said it was the St. Bonaventure school uniform. Just wondering.

It's just a stock photo of a kid.

Actually looking at the info at the Wikipedia page, it looks like that kid is actually British, which is... not really fitting for a quiz about African-Americans.