“Are you sure it’s a party thing?”
Indeed - It is just a coincidence that the population is largely black. We will keep playing these word games to our complete demise because you can’t fix what you can’t correctly identify.
Look at the Indian Reservations. They aren’t black. Yes, it is Democrats.
It is a party thing. If the parties end in gunfire on a Saturday night, the city has problems.
OK. I'll stop with the word games. There is a direct correlation with ethnicity. Large concentrations of blacks almost always means larger concentrations of crime.
Here are the census statistics by racial makeup...
http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1