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What about post-Reconstruction, 20th century divergences instead? Redeemer government was reestablished in South Carolina in 1876, yet South Carolina was black majority in 1920, not switching to white majority until 1930 (for the first time since 1810). I looked up Ben Tillman, and I could say...

Would there be enough jobs, capital, employers in that non-Jim Crow'ed state for life to be economically viable for a black majority? Political and and social rights and courts that take you seriously are great and all but people need to be able to earn and eat. If any non-Jim Crow'ed state...

Remember black majority in a state does not have to mean black political control, greater economic prosperity, or general happiness- - just greater proportional presence than white people.

Could one or more US southern states have remained black majority into the 20th century, and throughout the 20th century? In the aftermath of the US Civil War, in the 19th century, looking at population statistics of 1870, South Carolina had a black majority in the neighborhood of at least...