This has to be alarming for republicans!
Growth rate for black population surpasses U.S. average
The growth rate for America's black population is ever-so-slightly faster than the rate for the U.S. population as a whole.
The nation's 979 major counties had 34.67 million black residents as of July 2011, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. That was up 0.87 percent from 34.38 million a year earlier.
The total population of those same counties grew by 0.84 percent between July 1, 2010, and the corresponding date in 2011.
On Numbers analyzed the bureau's projections for every county with a 2011 population above 50,000. The number of black residents increased in the vast majority -- 841 of 979 -- of those major counties. The other 138 experienced declines.
That's considerably different from the trend for whites, which was the subject of yesterday's On Numbers story.
http://m.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/on-numbers/scott-thomas/2012/10/growth-rate-for-black-population.html?page=all&r=full
