BROTHER,
DC at one time was known as "CHOCLOATE CITY'. I always thought for the high concentration of BLACK PEOPLE. So, I'm not surprised a large amount of women came from that area.
To the best of my recollection I remember the model being kind of from all around he country. But I do remember many being from the South and East Coast.
PS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_City_(album)
PARLIAMENT even dropped an album called...
CHOCOLATE CITY...circa 1975
"Chocolate City" theme[edit]
The album takes its name from the term "Chocolate City," which had been used to describe Washington, D.C. where
blacks had been becoming a majority through migration (as explained in the cover notes included with one recent CD release of the album). The term had been used by Washington's black AM radio stations
WOL-AM and
WOOK-AM since the early 1970s to refer to the city. Bobby "The Mighty Burner" Bennett, a DJ on WOL, told the
Washington Post in 1998 "Chocolate City for me was the expression of D.C.'s classy funk and confident blackness."
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George Clinton used the concept in the title track using the black domination of the inner city populations as a positive message in contrast to concern over
White flight. The lyrics of the song refer to several such "chocolate cities" but focuses on D.C.: "There's a lot of chocolate cities around/We got
Newark, we got
Gary/Someone told me we got L.A./ And we're working on Atlanta / But you're the capital C.C."
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Clinton's lyrics referred to Chocolate City as "my piece of the rock" as opposed to the "
40 acres and a mule" that slaves were promised after the Civil War. He contrasted Chocolate City with the "vanilla suburbs" of the city, a term first used on the track.
The lyrics also reflected Clinton's thanks for the capital's strong support for P-Funk, further shown by the album cover showing the Lincoln Memorial and the
United States Capitol, rendered in melting milk chocolate.
Other tracks on the album reflecting the influence of Washington are "Let Me Be" drawing from 1970s D.C. gospel and "I Misjudged You" a homage to
The Unifics, a Washington R&B ballad group.
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Cultural references to "Chocolate City"[edit]
New Orleans mayor
Ray Nagin invoked the term Chocolate City in 2006, a few months after
Hurricane Katrina, during a
Martin Luther King Day speech (the "
Chocolate City speech"). This remark, in which Nagin said that New Orleans "would be a chocolate city once again," led to controversy, with critics accusing Nagin of racism; when Nagin later attended the
2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner,
Stephen Colbert welcomed Nagin to Washington, D.C., "the chocolate city with a
marshmallow center and a graham cracker crust of corruption".
At the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an independent living group known as Chocolate City at M.I.T. was founded in 1975. Named after the Parliament song, the living group houses 28–30 male students, and is a recognized part of the
M.I.T. housing system. According to the living groups,
[15] Chocolate City at M.I.T.'s primary purpose is to support its brotherhood and contribute to the global community. "Chocolate City is a brotherhood of MIT students and alumni who identify with Black culture and share common backgrounds, interests, ethnicities, and/or experiences. By cultivating a tradition of social, intellectual, character, and leadership development, the Brothers of Chocolate City exemplify a high standard of excellence which is founded on continual growth. The organization seeks to enrich the MIT's role in building greater global communities by embodying the principles of our brotherhood."