African Americans Census Facts!

Why African Americans vote overwhelmingly Democrat, most live according to the census Bureau in Red States that Bush won.

Here is a break down for my blog readers.

1) U.S. Census figures, 37.1 million African Americans live in the United States, comprising 12.9 percent of the total population.

2)54.8 percent of African Americans lived in the South..the "Red States"

3)17.6 percent of African Americans live in the Northeast and 18.7 percent in the Midwest, while only 8.9 percent live in the western states.

4)Almost 88 percent of African Americans lived in metropolitan areas in 2000.

5)With over 2 million black residents, New York City had the largest black urban population in the United States in 2000

6)Among cities of 100,000 or more, Gary, Indiana, had the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. city in 2000, with 85 percent (2003), followed closely by Detroit, Michigan, with 84.6 percent (2004). As of 2004, Memphis, Tennessee has an African-American population of 61.4 percent (2004), Atlanta, Georgia has about 54.2 percent (2004), and the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., has a 57.8 percent Black population (2004).