Percentage of Black Population in Counties, 2000

In my map “Percentage of Black Population in Counties, 2000”, it displays counties throughout the U.S. and where their black populations were distributed in the year 2000. It is clear by looking at the map where Blacks were residing 10 years ago. Most of them lived in the Southeast part of the U.S as well as along the East Coast up until the New England Area. This is not surprising news to me because I have been aware that states in this section of the U.S., especially Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, are highly populated with Blacks. And usually, where a certain demogarphic live, others will seek these areas out and live there as well, creating dense concentration of this race at various locations. This goes along with the thought that certain groups of people prefer to live by each other, and in this case, it is the black population. One aspect of the map that I found interesting was the lack of Blacks living in California. Living in Los Angeles for the last 4 years, I would have assumed the Black population was much higher than it says on the map. This could be because the map data was from the year 2000.