Posted on 08/25/2011 7:46:24 AM PDT by flowerplough
For black Northerners, the reverse migration makes economic -- and emotional -- sense. / RE: Chicago's Shrinking Black Community Experts say that a reverse migration to the suburbs and the South may be irreversible.
Why We're Moving: Thomas Clark was one of those committed New Yorkers. "For me it was the whole urban dynamic of being in a big city, being in the financial center of the world," said the former New York state banking official and onetime president and CEO of Carver Federal Savings Bank. Commuting into Manhattan from his White Plains, N.Y., home, the self-described "little guy from Lackawanna, N.Y.," took advantage of every social and cultural opportunity and "exposure to so many different people."
Now, Clark is content with a few visits back a year. Drawn by the cost of living, quality of life and the weather, the 67-year-old Clark moved to Charlotte, N.C., when he retired in November 2008. He's not alone. "Most of the people I'm meeting are from somewhere else," he said.
Chicago's Shrinking: Roderick J. Harrison, a Howard University researcher, said he was not surprised earlier this year when the U.S. Census Bureau reported a dramatic decline in Chicago's black population.
The recession and perception of better economic opportunities in Southern states such as Georgia and Texas -- and even Western states like California, Nevada and Arizona -- have prompted a number of black Chicagoans to pack up their belongings and create new paths in a pattern being called reverse migration. It's similar to the historic journey created by their ancestors decades ago in the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North and Midwest.
Even the allure of Chicago being the hometown of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, may not be enough to draw people back.
"Today's migration trend may be irreversible,'' Harrison, senior research scientist at the Office of Research Regulatory Compliance at Howard University, told The Root.
http://www.theroot.com/views/chicagos-shrinking-black-community?wpisrc=root_lightbox
Mindless obots will be better served moving to California...we don’t need any mule party voters infiltrating Georgia.
Just don’t come to the South and try and recreate NY! (High Taxes) and ya’ll are welcome.....
They will move and bring their voting patterns with them.
I wonder how long it will take for them to realize THAT is the problem, not the geography....................
Maybe they finally want to get off the Rat plantation?.......Nah,....
Please don’t come to Alabama. We’re a bunch of rednecks, remember?
Whay we are moving South-—
So we can come to your community and vote for politicians who will ruin your state they way they ruined the on we came from.
Liberals, like locusts, ravish one community and then move on to the next green conservative pastures.
People think I’m nutty for suggesting that Michigan is a good place for conservatives but with the leeches heading south, we could use all the help we can get to keep our momentum going in the right direction.
The GOP wave was probably bigger here than anywhere else in the nation during the last election.
oh great
all we need down here...
From the state that produced Jimmah Carter..spare us.
You know what’s scary?
If all the blacks up north did move back down South...a number of Southern states would go majority black..and we know what that means electorally
But would the whites up north vote well enough to then ensure rightist victories
in Deep South states whites vote almost 90% GOP (good lord the irony) but up north it’s rarely better than 55%
I guess that would be enough but we would get creamed down here
It would be like a big South Africa down here culturally
They will come and vote dependency, welfare, govt handouts, regulations, rules, higher taxes, nannystatism, you are a racist if you don’t agree with me, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Last thing we need in SC are more africans.
Just don’t come to the South and try and recreate NY! (High Taxes) and ya’ll are welcome.....
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Typically one sees an attempt to recreate southside Chicago, or Gary Indiana. Those efforts usually end unhappily for a number of reasons. A few do ‘come home’, however, and usually prosper.
We need to drag out the surviving members of Led Zeppelin and have them re-record “When the Levee Breaks”..change the lyrics from “Going to Chicago” to “Going back to anywhere else”.
I’ve seen Black suburbs of Atlanta that are so desirable to live in that White families move there and don’t mind being the minority.
You know what’s scary?
If all the blacks up north did move back down South...a number of Southern states would go majority black..and we know what that means electorally
But would the whites up north vote well enough to then ensure rightist victories
in Deep South states whites vote almost 90% GOP (good lord the irony) but up north it’s rarely better than 55%
I guess that would be enough but we would get creamed down here
It would be like a big South Africa down here culturally
I have to go to Michigan several times a year. Outside of Detroit, which was mixed, every interaction I have had there had been very positive. Cold weather, warm hearts. Old school people with a strain of frontier self sufficiency and decency. Love it up there. I would lose weight too, as my posterior froze off.
The ones moving south have done well economically...the majority..dependent on the welfare state handouts from the northern states..can’t afford to go..
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