Kerry won the Raleigh/Durham metro with 52.4%.
I'm surprised about Memphis. I've always thought of it as a socially conservative region. Does the metro have a high black population?
53% white, 44% black.
But DeSoto County, Mississippi, is really the only county large enough to threaten Shelby County, Tennessee's domination of the metro.
Yeah, I don't think there is any other metro in the nation that is as African-American. Living here, it's really hard to believe that the US is only 13% black and that TN is only 17% black. DeSoto is growing quickly but it is still tiny compared to Shelby. Republicans get far more votes in the eastern (white) half of Shelby County
Yeah, I was just in Indianapolis, and I couldn't believe the city is only 25% black. I probably didn't even see 10 white people who weren't at the hostel or there for the fest. Like I said before, I must've been staying deep in the hood.
