which is 1/2 the population of the entire state of MS... And my state (PA) has about 3 million more than the state of NC. So all these "cities" in those states are "small" to me. However it's all relative to the total state populations and those urban areas carry the populations that swing elections - particularly in their counties.
MS has a 37% black population, but apparently they don't have enough of a population of voting Democratic whites (need at least 25%) or voting Democratic blacks to throw an election the other way.
NC has a black population of about 22% (where many of the previous residents came here to Philly to live believe it or not - probably the bulk of black Philadelphia came here from NC during the '40s "migration" ), but they have a large non-native population now due to the banking industry settling there, the Research Triangle college area, and snowbirds who fled the north for the Smokies or fled Florida (due to a variety of reasons). So this is what is impacting in there where they actually did go for Obama in 2008 (and I remember when Harvey Gantt was oh so close in his first election for Senator there before a "crack down" happened in that state by the GOP loons).
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