Under current policy, blacks cannot constitute more than 43 percent of a county school's student body.

And race in a city where blacks constitute a 57 percent majority remains near the surface.

First, I'll suppose that blacks constitute 10 percent of the work force.

Blacks constitute 24.5 percent of the city's population, according to the 2000 census.

Blacks constituted the majority in three of the five city council districts.

Blacks constitute about 21 percent of the population of 35,000.

Blacks constitute the third largest ethnic group of Brazil, 12 million.

Blacks now constitute 46 percent of the registered Democrats.

Blacks then constituted some 38 percent of Macon's population.

This difference was partly accounted for by the fact that blacks constituted a larger share of the young electorate.