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In 2020, the most populated counties which had a Black majority were Prince George's County, Maryland (population 967K), Shelby County, Tennessee (population 930K), DeKalb County, Georgia (population 764K), Baltimore City, Maryland (population 586K), and Orleans Parish, Louisiana (population 384K).
Within the US, Louisiana has the fifth largest overall African American population. Louisiana has the second largest percentage of African Americans in the country, only behind Mississippi. [5] As of the 2020 US census, Black Louisianians of African heritage were 32.8% of the state's population. [6]
Louisiana is a South Central US state, with a 2020 US census resident population of 4,657,757, [2] and apportioned population of 4,661,468. [3] [4] Much of the state's population is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's major metropolitan areas (Shreveport-Bossier City; Monroe ...
2 African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) Toggle African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) subsection 2.1 Free blacks as a percentage out of the total black population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860
The following is a list of United States cities, towns, and census designated places in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is non-Hispanic African American/Black alone as of the 2020 U.S. Census.
"Louisiana has taken a historic step in adopting a congressional map that creates two African-American districts based on population," Jenkins said. "This is a fair map passed with bipartisan support.
Louisiana's new majority Black 6th Congressional District boundaries stretch from Baton Rouge to Alexandria to Acadiana to Shreveport. ... "The state (population) is 33% Black. At the end of the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 ...