World War I was the start of the first black exodus:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American) …
The blackest state in the US currently is Mississippi at 37%. In 1860 though, 55% of Mississippians were slaves. In South Carolina the drop is even starker: 57-27%. In the grand scheme of things Deep South racists lost the battle but won the war.
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It peaked in the colonial era. The higher black fertility rate has kept their share of the population about the same level from 1870 to the present. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States#Black_population_as_a_percentage_of_the_total_population_by_U.S._region_and_state_(1790%E2%80%932010)The … shift in Southern demographics is due to black out-migration.
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