how many of the nation’s 24 largest cities and towns were located in the south?

The majority of the nation’s 24 largest cities and towns in 1790 were not in the South; six of the 24 largest were located in the South. In the decade that followed, the South’s share of the largest cities remained small for that period, with the next four largest cities after Charleston and Baltimore being in the Southern states and each having populations in the low thousands rather than hundreds of thousands.