re: How old were you before you realized there were towns with hardly any black people?

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when I go somewhere where you can drive around all day and not see any black people

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And where are these mythical towns of which you speak?

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the first time I went to Austin in 2004, I counted the black people I saw

Over 3 days I counted 14

I presume it's changed since then

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One of the biggest "post a black square in 2020" people I know is from Laguna Beach, CA where the black population is 0.6%.

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OJ lived there at one point

I know b/c he was on Letterman and told a story about "driving home to Laguna" and got ticketed for speeding on the freeway in his Ferrari

stop breaking the law a-hole

Never.

I've lived my life in Mississippi (18.5% to 20.6%) and South Carolina (~33.2%).

I will say, at the tender age of 14 when I moved from coastal MS to SC, I was shocked at what I saw when I went over the state line to Augusta Mall.(56%)

ETA... spent a month in Bridgewater, NS... don't think I saw many, but was too distracted by the size of mosquitos and cost of cigarettes to notice.

I grew up in a town of over 3,500 people, zero black people. The conference my high school played in had two schools with a small percentage of black students. 1980’s.

Spent a lot of time in Colorado…… very few out there

I grew up in a town (and county) with no black people.

The minority were American Indians.

I grew up in a community(not incorporated) of about 2200. (1970's) No blacks. They lived on other side of interstate in their 99.9% black community.