As we prepare for the 2010 census, we take a look at the latest information, including the fact that 77 Counties were majority Black.

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Blacks

• New York had the largest black population of any state as of July 1, 2008 (3.5 million); Georgia had the largest numeric increase since July 1, 2007 (67,000). The District of Columbia had the highest percentage of blacks (56 percent), followed by Mississippi (38 percent).
• Cook County, Ill. (Chicago) had the largest black population of any county (1.4 million), and Orleans Parish, La. (New Orleans) had the largest numeric increase since July 1, 2007 (16,000). Claiborne County, Miss. — on the Louisiana border — had the highest percentage of blacks in the nation (84 percent).
• Seventy-seven counties were majority-black or African-American; all were in the South.

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