The 2010 mayoral election may prove to be the last black-majority vote in the nation’s capital.

Census data released Thursday shows the place once nicknamed “Chocolate City” has shed black residents over the past decade. That combined with more white people moving in has the District’s black population standing at 50 percent.

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