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Going by the map I am guessing these are the "major" cities of that region:
Durham, NC
Fayetteville, NC
Columbus, GA
Augusta, GA
Columbia, SC
Memphis
Shreveport?
Jackson
Montgomerey?
Of those cities Memphis and Jackson got to be up there. Its good to see Jackson. Making a top something and its not a negative.
If Durham,NC is black belt, it would be no. 2, ahead of Augusta and Fayetteville.
Yeah it would but Durham County touches the black belt but is not in the black belt and its the rural northern part of Durham County that touches the black belt not the more urban southern Section, where Durham is located.
I love Durham tho it has the Urban Baltimore feel going for it. That makes it different from the other cities in North Carolina
Edit: I looked and I forgot about Montgomery AL, It would be #2 with a pop over 200,000, but Fayetteville, and NC Lax Annexation laws, annexed Fort Bragg bringing the Population to Over 206,000 but that was a estimate from 2008
Last edited by Mgyeldell; 06-08-2010 at 02:41 PM..
black belt. wow. ok...i learn something new everyday, i guess.
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Originally Posted by Metro Matt
Black Belt? That's a new terminology to me. Where do people come up with these sayings anyways?
The original intent for the term refers to the soil but Booker T. Washington wrote about the black belt region in his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery: and W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about it in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. This is nothing new just not talk about much. Here's a history fact that not commonly known at all, after slavery many southern states were near half or actually were majority black, but then Jim crow laws cause the Great migration. But even to day over half of US black population stays in the south. The black belt is most often used to describe the region that blacks have been the majority demographic in most of these counties since slavery.
The original intent for the term refers to the soil but Booker T. Washington wrote about the black belt region in his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery: and W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about it in his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk. This is nothing new just not talk about much. Here's a history fact that not commonly known at all, after slavery many southern states were near half or actually were majority black, but then Jim crow laws cause the Great migration. But even to day over half of US black population stays in the south. The black belt is most often used to describe the region that blacks have been the majority demographic in most of these counties since slavery.
This makes sense to me. I've noticed, there is always issues concerning certain topics...
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