[BwanaNdege]

It appears that the WaPo is not above a little snarky racism! (to give them the benefit of the doubt, this may be nothing more that Yankee superiority manifesting itself.)

Mississippi – yes, Mississippi – has the nation’s best child vaccination rate.

Rank	State	African-American Alone
Population (2010)[1]	% African-American
1	Mississippi	1,074,200	37.30%
2	Louisiana	1,452,396	31.98%
3	Georgia	2,950,435	30.02%
4	Maryland	1,700,298	29.44%
5	South Carolina	1,290,684	28.48%
6	Alabama	1,251,311	26.38%
7	North Carolina	2,048,628	21.60%
8	Delaware	191,814	20.95%
9	Virginia	1,551,399	19.91%
10	Tennessee	1,055,689	16.78%

[iowamark]

I believe that, in the 1940’s(?), Mississippi was the only state where blacks were the majority of the population.