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Your weekly geography/demography quiz Q: what are the only six American cities with a black majority and a total population over 300,000? No cheating!
Time's up. And wow...nobody got it! Many got 5/6, but nobody got all six. Here they are, in order of black pop share: Detroit, Memphis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland.

Common mistake: many of you missed the news that hyper-gentrified DC is no longer majority black!
Other common misconceptions: overstating the black population share of cities like Philly, Milwaukee, Chicago. And overstating the size of cities like Birmingham, Jackson, and Newark.

The city that comes closest to making cut is STL: latest estimates have share just under 50%.
What prompted this Q was a great family road trip to Pittsburgh and Cleveland that got me thinking about how wildly different the demographics of our post-industrial cities are--from Detroit, which is nearly 80 percent black, to Pittsburgh, less than a quarter.
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