It is shockingly difficult to track down online what percentage of the population of Yazoo City, Mississippi was African-American in 1940. It shouldn’t be: the Census asked that question, I believe, and they took down the answers. Shouldn’t this be readily available public information?
Moe Lane
PS: Because I want to know what kind of neo-barbarian tribe would have taken over the town after The Day After Ragnarok‘s Serpentfall, of course. I was originally going to have it be ruled over by an increasingly-thewed Barbour Tribe, of course — it’s like they’re just handing me the idea — but if the town was already majority-black at the time then I gotta fiddle with the idea some more.
Have you tried the city Information system for Yahoo City?
Try this:
http://www.linkpendium.com/yazoo-ms-genealogy/cen/
You might also want to some of the cities tourist stuff. Like a good part for the City burned down in 1904 and was rebuilt and the City is strategically placed between where the Delta ends and the farmland begins. So there’s going to be a varied economy and it’s probably been fortified. Slightly related it strikes me as a tourist trap now, famous Authors and Musicians. Incidently the 1904 fire was blamed on the witch of Yazoo.