"Chocolate City" Status In The Balance

I'd been waiting with baited breath for new census data to prompt a bunch of stories about DC's decreasing blackness, and now that the new numbers are out they show exactly 50 percent of the city's residents to be non-Hispanic blacks:

The really interesting thing in the census data, though, is that I'd expected the very uneven pattern of growth in the city to force a major post-census redrawing of our Ward boundaries. It looks like I'm going to be disappointed. The two wards with the highest population growth—Ward 2 and Ward 6—had the lowest total populations after the 2000 census. Consequently, it'll only take a pretty minor redrawing of the lines (if any) to keep things in line.