Interesting fact. According to
state by state racial incarceration rates, we can compare the number of each race incarcerated to the general population of the state. These figures date to 2005, but crime has not significantly increased since the depression began.
The state that has the nearest to a proportionate number of Blacks and Whites in jail is Hawaii. This is because the percentage of Hawaiian Blacks that are in jail is far below the national average, while the Whites in jail is about the national average. You are still twice as likely to be in jail if you are Black in Hawaii than you are if you are White.
The runners up are roughly a three way tie between Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. All three have above average White incarceration rates and below average Black ones. The ratio here is about 3.5-4 to 1. South Carolina is only slightly less evenhanded at 4.5:1, the result of lower White incarceration rates.
The author claimed to be from a major Southern Metropolitan area, so that eliminates the three above states. Only Alabama comes close to having a metropolitan area. The choices would therefore seem to be in order of probability Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, perhaps Memphis, Tennessee as a last option. The metropolitan portion of Florida is a joint colony of NYC and Cuba. Georgia and Texas both have significantly higher than average White incarceration rates, while Georgia's Black incarceration rate is slightly below average and Texas is greatly above average. Louisiana has an above average rate of White and Black Incarceration, and a surprisingly low Hispanic one. North Carolina is below average in both its Black and White incarceration rate. Tennessee is roughly comparable to Alabama.
The states where you least want to be Black to avoid jail time are South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. In each, over 4% of the Black population is incarcerated. No Southern State approaches the Mid-Atlantic ratios of Black to White per capita incarceration, which tend toward 10:1 or 9:1. In the case of DC, it is 20:1. This is in spite of the fact that both New York and DC have Black incarceration rates that are less than Mississippi's, their White incarceration rates are far below the national average.
Conclusion: Either the author of the Public Defender tract is lying through his teeth when he claims to have few White criminal clients, or he is serving a municipal jurisdiction in the South with virtually no White population.
I suppose the latter is remotely possible, but I tend to agree with AthenaAwakened and regard the article as an inflammatory fabrication.