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.
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.
