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07-20-2008, 09:00 PM
I just cheaked the Wal Street Journal and low and behold this is the major story!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642866373567057.html?mod=yhoofront
The End of White Flight
Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is drawing to a close.
In Washington, a historically negro church is trying to attract white members to survive. Atlanta's next mayoral race is expected to feature the first competitive white candidate since the 1980s. San Francisco has lost so many Negros that Mayor Gavin Newsom created an "Negro Out-Migration Task Force and Advisory Committee" to help retain black residents.
"The city is experiencing growth, yet we're losing Negro families disproportionately," Mr. Newsom says. When that happens, "we lose part of our soul." :bs
For much of the 20th century, the proportion of whites shrank in most U.S. cities. In recent years the decline has slowed considerably -- and in some significant cases has reversed. Between 2000 and 2006, eight of the 50 largest cities, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, saw the proportion of whites increase, according to Census figures. The previous decade, only three cities saw increases.
So where are the negros going exactly?
The changing racial mix is stirring up quarrels over class and culture. Beloved institutions in traditionally black communities -- minority-owned restaurants, book stores -- are losing the customers who supported them for decades. As neighborhoods grow more multicultural, conflicts over home prices, taxes and education are opening a new chapter in American race relations.
Raycist Negros dont like YT in da hood. I am shocked
Part of the demographic shift is simple math: So many whites had abandoned cities over the past half-century, there weren't as many left to lose. Whites make up 66% of the general U.S. population, but only about 40% of large cities. Sooner or later, the pendulum was bound to swing back, and that appears to be starting. Again where did the negros go?
The Census data "suggests that white flight from large cities may have bottomed out in the 1990s," says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
For instance, while most of the 50 largest cities continue to see declines in the share of whites, it is at much-reduced rates. In Los Angeles the share of the white population declined only about a half a percentage point between 2000 and 2006, compared to a 7.5-point decline the previous decade. Cities including New York, Fort Worth and Chicago show a similar pattern.
'Natural Decrease' What an appropriate euphemism!
Demographic readjustments can take decades to play out. But if current trends continue, Washington and Atlanta (both with negro majorities) will in the next decade see African-Americans fall below 50% for the first time in about a half-century. Holy hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meantime, in San Francisco, Negro deaths now outnumber births. Once a "natural decrease" such as this begins, it's tough for the population to bounce back, since there are fewer residents left to produce the next generation. "The cycle tends to be self-perpetuating," says Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. :party
Cries of 'Segregation'
A few months later, a small group of families, most of them white, proposed establishing a new public school, to be located inside the existing P.S. 84. Hundreds of minority parents reacted by putting out a press release calling it de facto segregation. The proposal is "clearly discriminatory," the release said. "Children will suffer the effects of negative stigma as a result of this segregation which will send our City back 120 years!" Dis beez Raycist!!!!!!!!
Elsewhere in Brooklyn, in a majority African-American section of the borough, Councilwoman Letitia James says a handful of predominantly white parents last year asked her if some of their local tax money could be steered to schools in a nearby neighborhood. The parents wanted their kids in schools with a more diverse racial mix, Ms. James says, rather than the majority-black schools in her district. So really these people are sending their kids fo mixed schools just not the negro ones
The parents felt "tax dollars should follow the children, and not the school," Ms. James says. She denied their request. No shock
Cities Get a Makeover
Today, cities are refashioning themselves as trendy centers devoid of suburban ills like strip malls and long commutes. In Atlanta, which has among the longest commute times of any U.S. city, the white population rose by 26,000 between 2000 and 2006, while the black population decreased by 8,900. Overall the white proportion has increased to 35% in 2006 from 31% in 2000.
In other cities, whites are still leaving, but more negros are moving out. Boston lost about 6,000 negros residents between 2000 and 2006 Sent to negro college and the dirt farm you mean, but only about 3,000 whites. In 2006, whites accounted for 50.2% of the city's population, up from 49.5% in 2000. That's the first increase in roughly a century.
Tracking population shifts is an inexact science. Changes in how Census data are tallied makes for imprecise comparisons across decades. Hispanics, for instance, were mostly lumped in with whites until 1980, potentially overstating the white population in earlier decades. Also, losses of negros from cities are often disproportionate to other minorities because unlike, say, Hispanics or Asians, the inflow of negros immigrants into the U.S. isn't big enough to offset the loss of negros to the suburbs. Again with the suburbs just say it they are killing themselves off with violecne :suicide and crack
Washington -- where negros have been in the majority for a half-century -- has lost about 80,000 negro residents between 1990 and 2006. Whites had been leaving, too, but recently they've started coming back. Between 2000 and 2006, Washington gained 24,000 whites and lost 21,000 negros. Whites are now 32% of the population, up from 28% in 2000. Again Why this realy happened is never stated but it sure wasn't negro flight
From Poor to Poorer
As middle-class negros have left San Francisco, the remaining negro population has gone from poor to poorer. In 1990, half of the city's negro population was very low-income; by 2005, that number swelled to about two-thirds. The number of negro -owned businesses fell 25% between 1997 and 2002. SO they didnt go anywhere specific and lost money in the process!
The Western Addition, a historically negro neighborhood in San Francisco once home to many jazz clubs, has lost much of that character. Powell's Place, an iconic soul-food restaurant that had been located in or around the neighborhood since the 1970s, has moved to Bayview-Hunters Point. Charles Spencer, who owns a barbershop catering to negro men, says he has lost many of his customers and is trying to diversify. His Web site has a picture of a white client to go with three black faces. "I give up"
'An Act of Faith'
Raye Richardson, owner of Marcus Book Stores -- its motto is "Books by and about negro people everywhere" thats about fifteen books -- has been in the Fillmore district since 1946. She remembers the clubs, the black tailor shops and the many black residents who supported her shop. Today, Ms. Richardson says her store is losing money; much of her business comes from mail-order traffic. Meanwhile the white owned bookstores are thriving
"San Francisco has so few blacks now, that it's just an act of faith to stay open," says Ms. Richardson, 88. :party
Sherri Young, executive director at the negro Shakesphear Company in San Francisco, is one of the few negros at her theater company who still lives in San Francisco. "I'm a single woman in my late 30s," Ms. Young says. "Culturally, it's difficult." Toz beez or not to bez ho where beez mi dik
Recently, she says, her production of "The Comedy of Errors" drew a mostly white audience. It's the first time that's happened since she founded the company 14 years ago. I'm going to die laughing from the irony
In a nutshell Negro population is fauling and I see no evidence it is the result immigration to the suburbs. The trut is negros are dying out by killing themselves off.
What do you think?:usflag
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642866373567057.html?mod=yhoofront
The End of White Flight
Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is drawing to a close.
In Washington, a historically negro church is trying to attract white members to survive. Atlanta's next mayoral race is expected to feature the first competitive white candidate since the 1980s. San Francisco has lost so many Negros that Mayor Gavin Newsom created an "Negro Out-Migration Task Force and Advisory Committee" to help retain black residents.
"The city is experiencing growth, yet we're losing Negro families disproportionately," Mr. Newsom says. When that happens, "we lose part of our soul." :bs
For much of the 20th century, the proportion of whites shrank in most U.S. cities. In recent years the decline has slowed considerably -- and in some significant cases has reversed. Between 2000 and 2006, eight of the 50 largest cities, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, saw the proportion of whites increase, according to Census figures. The previous decade, only three cities saw increases.
So where are the negros going exactly?
The changing racial mix is stirring up quarrels over class and culture. Beloved institutions in traditionally black communities -- minority-owned restaurants, book stores -- are losing the customers who supported them for decades. As neighborhoods grow more multicultural, conflicts over home prices, taxes and education are opening a new chapter in American race relations.
Raycist Negros dont like YT in da hood. I am shocked
Part of the demographic shift is simple math: So many whites had abandoned cities over the past half-century, there weren't as many left to lose. Whites make up 66% of the general U.S. population, but only about 40% of large cities. Sooner or later, the pendulum was bound to swing back, and that appears to be starting. Again where did the negros go?
The Census data "suggests that white flight from large cities may have bottomed out in the 1990s," says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
For instance, while most of the 50 largest cities continue to see declines in the share of whites, it is at much-reduced rates. In Los Angeles the share of the white population declined only about a half a percentage point between 2000 and 2006, compared to a 7.5-point decline the previous decade. Cities including New York, Fort Worth and Chicago show a similar pattern.
'Natural Decrease' What an appropriate euphemism!
Demographic readjustments can take decades to play out. But if current trends continue, Washington and Atlanta (both with negro majorities) will in the next decade see African-Americans fall below 50% for the first time in about a half-century. Holy hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meantime, in San Francisco, Negro deaths now outnumber births. Once a "natural decrease" such as this begins, it's tough for the population to bounce back, since there are fewer residents left to produce the next generation. "The cycle tends to be self-perpetuating," says Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. :party
Cries of 'Segregation'
A few months later, a small group of families, most of them white, proposed establishing a new public school, to be located inside the existing P.S. 84. Hundreds of minority parents reacted by putting out a press release calling it de facto segregation. The proposal is "clearly discriminatory," the release said. "Children will suffer the effects of negative stigma as a result of this segregation which will send our City back 120 years!" Dis beez Raycist!!!!!!!!
Elsewhere in Brooklyn, in a majority African-American section of the borough, Councilwoman Letitia James says a handful of predominantly white parents last year asked her if some of their local tax money could be steered to schools in a nearby neighborhood. The parents wanted their kids in schools with a more diverse racial mix, Ms. James says, rather than the majority-black schools in her district. So really these people are sending their kids fo mixed schools just not the negro ones
The parents felt "tax dollars should follow the children, and not the school," Ms. James says. She denied their request. No shock
Cities Get a Makeover
Today, cities are refashioning themselves as trendy centers devoid of suburban ills like strip malls and long commutes. In Atlanta, which has among the longest commute times of any U.S. city, the white population rose by 26,000 between 2000 and 2006, while the black population decreased by 8,900. Overall the white proportion has increased to 35% in 2006 from 31% in 2000.
In other cities, whites are still leaving, but more negros are moving out. Boston lost about 6,000 negros residents between 2000 and 2006 Sent to negro college and the dirt farm you mean, but only about 3,000 whites. In 2006, whites accounted for 50.2% of the city's population, up from 49.5% in 2000. That's the first increase in roughly a century.
Tracking population shifts is an inexact science. Changes in how Census data are tallied makes for imprecise comparisons across decades. Hispanics, for instance, were mostly lumped in with whites until 1980, potentially overstating the white population in earlier decades. Also, losses of negros from cities are often disproportionate to other minorities because unlike, say, Hispanics or Asians, the inflow of negros immigrants into the U.S. isn't big enough to offset the loss of negros to the suburbs. Again with the suburbs just say it they are killing themselves off with violecne :suicide and crack
Washington -- where negros have been in the majority for a half-century -- has lost about 80,000 negro residents between 1990 and 2006. Whites had been leaving, too, but recently they've started coming back. Between 2000 and 2006, Washington gained 24,000 whites and lost 21,000 negros. Whites are now 32% of the population, up from 28% in 2000. Again Why this realy happened is never stated but it sure wasn't negro flight
From Poor to Poorer
As middle-class negros have left San Francisco, the remaining negro population has gone from poor to poorer. In 1990, half of the city's negro population was very low-income; by 2005, that number swelled to about two-thirds. The number of negro -owned businesses fell 25% between 1997 and 2002. SO they didnt go anywhere specific and lost money in the process!
The Western Addition, a historically negro neighborhood in San Francisco once home to many jazz clubs, has lost much of that character. Powell's Place, an iconic soul-food restaurant that had been located in or around the neighborhood since the 1970s, has moved to Bayview-Hunters Point. Charles Spencer, who owns a barbershop catering to negro men, says he has lost many of his customers and is trying to diversify. His Web site has a picture of a white client to go with three black faces. "I give up"
'An Act of Faith'
Raye Richardson, owner of Marcus Book Stores -- its motto is "Books by and about negro people everywhere" thats about fifteen books -- has been in the Fillmore district since 1946. She remembers the clubs, the black tailor shops and the many black residents who supported her shop. Today, Ms. Richardson says her store is losing money; much of her business comes from mail-order traffic. Meanwhile the white owned bookstores are thriving
"San Francisco has so few blacks now, that it's just an act of faith to stay open," says Ms. Richardson, 88. :party
Sherri Young, executive director at the negro Shakesphear Company in San Francisco, is one of the few negros at her theater company who still lives in San Francisco. "I'm a single woman in my late 30s," Ms. Young says. "Culturally, it's difficult." Toz beez or not to bez ho where beez mi dik
Recently, she says, her production of "The Comedy of Errors" drew a mostly white audience. It's the first time that's happened since she founded the company 14 years ago. I'm going to die laughing from the irony
In a nutshell Negro population is fauling and I see no evidence it is the result immigration to the suburbs. The trut is negros are dying out by killing themselves off.
What do you think?:usflag