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Blacks made up 7.8 percent of the rural and 13.1 percent of the urban population.
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US population is urban: 249,253,271, rural: 59,492,276
Doing some math, ~12% of the black population is rural, and moreover, other ethnic groups represent a larger share of the rural pop. For the sake of this analysis, rural lack of access to vaccines does not explain low vaccination rates among blacks as a whole.