Edited by Azizi Powell
This is Part III of a four part pancocojams series about the African American term "chocolate city".Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-parliaments-chocolate-city-1975.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube sound file of the Parliament's 1975 Funk record "Chocolate City". Information about the Parliaments and their "Chocolate City" album & single is included in this post. Lyrics for the parliaments' record "Chocolate City" are also included in this pancocojams post along with some explanations of some of those lyrics.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/youtube-commenters-write-about-which.html for Part II of this pancocojams series. This post showcases a sound file of the Parliament's Funk 1975 record "Chocolate City" and presents selected comments from several YouTube discussion threads of that record. Most of those comments refer to United States cities that were considered "chocolate city in the 1970s and/or now.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/how-washington-dc-childrens-foot.html for Part IV of this pancocojams post. That post presents an example of a foot stomping cheer called "Chocolate City" which my daughter Tazi Hughes collected at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania summer camp in 1992 from a Washington D. C. girl who was visiting her cousin in Pittsburgh.
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Thanks to the United States Census Bureau for this research and thanks to Wikipedia for quoting it.
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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
This post showcases a reformatted version of the list found on a Wikipedia page of the top United States majority Black cities with 100, 000 or more total residents. This reformatted version doesn't include the number results for "Population", "Black population" and "Black alone population" for the cities that are found on that list.
"Black" is the United States Census Bureau referent for a person who self-identify as Black or African American" combined with one or more races or combined with Hispanic.
Black alone" is the United States Census Bureau referent for people who self-identify as "A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black or African American," or report entries such as African American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian."
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-2020-us-census-bureaus-switch-from.html for a pancocojams post on that subject entitled "The 2020 U.S. Census Bureau's Switch from The Terms "Race-Hispanic" Or "Race-Non-Hispanic" To "Race" Or "Race Alone" Reflects This Nation's Growing Diversity."
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Pancocojams Editor's Note: I used bold font for the entry for Washington, D. C. in honor of that city being the first city in the United States that was known as "chocolate city.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Black_populations
" This list of U.S. cities by Black population covers all incorporated cities and Census-designated places with a population over 100,000 and a proportion of Black residents over 30% in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and the population in each city that is Black or African American.
The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census.[1]
At the time of the 2020 Census, there were 47.5 million Americans who were Black (either alone or in combination), making up 14.2% of the U.S. population. Texas has the largest Black population with over 3.9 million. State by state, the highest number of Black Americans could be found in Texas (3.96 million), Florida (3.70 million), Georgia (3.54 million), New York (3.53 million), and California (2.83 million). Meanwhile, the highest proportions of African Americans were in the District of Columbia (44.17%), Mississippi (37.94%), Louisiana (33.13%), Georgia (33.03%), and Maryland (32.01%).
Throughout the country, there are 342 cities with a population over 100,000. 19 of them had Black (alone or in combination) majorities, and in 46 more cities, between 30% and 50% of the population identified as Black. Out of the 19 majority-Black cities, four were in Georgia and Louisiana and Alabama had three each. Meanwhile, the states of Florida, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Mississippi each had one majority-Black city. [2]
In 2020, the largest cities which had a Black majority were
Detroit, Michigan (population 639K), Memphis, Tennessee (population 633K),
Baltimore, Maryland (population 534K), New Orleans, Louisiana (population
384K), and Cleveland, Ohio (population 373K).
City/State- Black Percentage Black Alone Percentage
2. Jackson, Mississippi 80.45% 78.86%
4. Gary, Indiana- 78.47%
5. Birmingham, Alabama 69.82% 68.40%
6. Miami Gardens, Florida 66.97% 63.50%
7. Memphis, Tennessee 63.34% 61.57%
9. Baltimore, Maryland 60.42% 57.79%
10. Augusta, Georgia 58.61% 55.81%
11. Wilmington, Delaware 58.26%
12. Shreveport, Louisiana 57.82% 56.02%
13. New Orleans, Louisiana 57.02% 54.24%
14. Macon, Georgia 56.48% 54.58%
15. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 55.43% 53.84%
16. Hampton, Virginia 53.65% 49.52%
17. Newark, New Jersey 53.22% 49.45%
18. Mobile, Alabama 53.04% 51.35%
19. Cleveland, Ohio 51.59% 48.37%
20. Brockton, Massachusetts 51.42% 34.98%
21. Savannah, Georgia 51.41% 49.14%
22. Atlanta, Georgia 49.51% 47.22%
23. Columbus, Georgia 49.40% 46.47%
24. Beaumont, Texas 49.15% 47.32%
25. Fayetteville, North Carolina 47.58% 42.99%
26. Miramar, Florida 46.43% 42.39%
27. Newport News, Virginia 46.35% 42.25%
28. St. Louis, Missouri 45.45% 43.04%
29, Greensboro, North
Carolina 44.83% 41.99%
30. Rochester, New York 44.55% 40.10%
31. Washington, District of Columbia 44.17% 41.45%
32. Dayton, Ohio 43.90% 40.67%
33. Norfolk Virginia 43.55% 40.16%
34. Killeen,Texas 43.47% 37.27%
35. Cincinnati, Ohio 43.35% 40.55%
36. North Charleston, South Carolina 42.99% 40.64%
37, Richmond, Virginia 42.91% 40.45%
38. Little Rock, Arkansas 42.35% 40.64%
39. Hartford, Connecticut 42.32% 38.19%
40. Inglewood, California 42.24% 38.70%
41. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 42.01% 39.31%
42. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 41.50% 38.59%
43. Columbia, South Carolina 40.36% 38.50%
44. Buffalo New York 40.16% 36.87%
45. Bridgeport, Connecticut 38.59% 35.07%
46. Durham, North Carolina 38.59% 36.24%
47. Tallahassee, Florida 37.22% 35.02%
48. New Haven, Connecticut 35.82% 32.20%
49. Charlotte, North Carolina 35.39% 33.05%
50. Syracuse, New York 35.37% 30.67%
51. Winston-Salem, North
Carolina 34.98% 32.52%
52. Akron, Ohio 34.94% 31.41%
53. High Point, North Carolina 34.35% 32.10%
54. West Palm Beach, Florida 34.13% 31.65%
55. Jacksonville, Florida 33.20% 30.57%
56. Toledo, Ohio 32.67% 28.76%
57. Lafayette, Louisiana 32.42% 30.70%
58. Columbus, Ohio 31.77% 28.65%
59. Chesapeake, Virginia 31.68% 28.97%
60. Huntsville, Alabama 31.45% 29.34%
61. Columbia, Maryland 31.25% 27.65%
62. Peoria, Illinois 31.13% 27.86%
63. Chattanooga, Tennessee 30.89% 29.09%
64. Chicago, Illinois 30.79% 29.17%
65. Roanoke, Virginia 30.76% 27.47%
66.
67. Indianapolis, Indiana 30.55% 27.95%
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Here's some information for the city that is #1 on this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fulton,_Georgia
The City of South Fulton is in Fulton County, Georgia,
United States, in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
It was incorporated in 2017 from parts of southwest Fulton
County and includes the communities of Red Oak, Cooks Crossing, Stonewall,
Fife, Ben Hill, Sandtown, Cliftondale, Ono, Cedar Grove, Boat Rock/Dry Pond,
Maude, Lester, Enon, Welcome All, Peters Woods, and part of Campbellton.[2] As
of 2020, it had a population of 107,436, making it the state's eighth-largest
city in population.[3] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 107,436
people, 32,457 households, and 22,994 families residing in the city.”…
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