[okie01]

June Numbers:
Angelina, 9.1; Houston, 9.7; Jasper, 10.5; Nacogdoches, 7.1; Newton, 11.5; Polk, 9.7; Sabine, 15.2; San Augustine, 10.6; San Jacinto, 9.6; Shelby, 7.4; Trinity, 8.7; Tyler, 10.2.

Every one of those counties are in East Texas -- piney woods country -- mostly rural, heavily black.

[dragnet2]

I didn't realize most of east Texas was black...Did you see this:

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the jobless rate rose to 8.2 percent compared to 7.1 percent in May.

That's a big jump in a very short time.