>From Black Agenda Report on the 10 Worst Places for Blacks in the u.s.:
The states with the fifteen highest disparity rates between black and white incarceration show some interesting characteristics. First, none of them are in the South. Secondly Blacks make up a negligible percentage, 6% or less in ten of these high disparity states. Thirdly, the other five high-disparity states either contain or are adjacent to three of the five largest concentrations of African American population in the US, namely the metro areas of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
About half of all African Americans live in the South, and that number is increasing. Generally, southern states have higher percentages of Black population, but lower disparity rates between black and white population than elsewhere. No southern state locks up nine or ten times as many African Americans as whites. In the table below we can see that the Texas pattern is a typical southern one, with a pretty average disparity rate.
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