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Why We're Moving Back South / Chicago's Shrinking Black Community
Henry Louis Gates' "The Root" ^ | 23 Aug | Curtis/Holloway

Posted on 08/25/2011 7:46:24 AM PDT by flowerplough

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To: mac_truck

From the state that produced Jimmah Carter..spare us.


You didn’t have to vote for him...

Georgia has gone in the opposite direction compared to California over the past 20 years...our state politics are controlled by Republicans whereas California is controlled by enviro extremists, progressives, La Raza et al...


21 posted on 08/25/2011 8:15:46 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: mac_truck

I didn’t vote for Jimmah.


22 posted on 08/25/2011 8:18:34 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ken5050

With the way we’re cutting them off in Michigan, they can’t afford to stay.


23 posted on 08/25/2011 8:20:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: massgopguy
Which ones pray tell?

maybe for poor trailer whites..

I hear whites in Atlanta complaining about the Africanization of the suburbs right now...which is why the main white draw is to the north of Atlanta to avoid it

As one who lived this way back 39 years ago let me explain how it works...we had to flee the black ghetto wave in 1972:

First, the decent blacks move in trying to get a better place to live....black cops, middle class folks....then sooner or later less desirable move in ...then more and more and by then whites and the original blacks have moved on...and then it's screwed till gay yuppies regentrify in 100 years

it works when it never gets to the “black suburb” phase you described...like where I live...small minority of blacks who can afford it and are two parent families and other than being libs and hip hop share many of my values

but you open the floodgates then you can forget it

and except for Detroit...and a few other rust belt holes most of ya’ll just don't understand like we have for 150 years now and counting...my state is 40% black, your's 6%...understand?

but the canard that pisses me off most is the one we were spoonfed for decades...that as blacks got richer they would get more conservative politically...what a foisted piece of propaganda

24 posted on 08/25/2011 8:22:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (I support Bachmann...or Palin should she enter...but I am not a Palin Harpy...know the difference)
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To: wardaddy
as blacks got richer they would get more conservative politically

Its a process. Work comes first, then conservatism and wealth.
25 posted on 08/25/2011 8:25:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: flowerplough

Guess we need to add it to D.C. on our list of cities where the local Democrat black power structure is freaking out about losing their “chocolate city”.


26 posted on 08/25/2011 8:25:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cripplecreek
as blacks got richer they would get more conservative politically

If you get rich primarily as a result of something Jesse Jackson and his ilk have wrestled away from somebody else using mafia tactics, it will not make you more conservative.
27 posted on 08/25/2011 8:27:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You should hear the squealing coming out of Detroit over the fact that John Conyers district boundaries are changing. He’s not even losing his district but they’re acting like it.


28 posted on 08/25/2011 8:34:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I didn’t vote for Jimmah.

Good for you. How about Ronnie?


29 posted on 08/25/2011 9:21:20 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: flowerplough

Black moving back south, huh? I applaud them for getting out of thee hell-hole of Chicago. The question is will they take the Chicago disease with them, or leave it behind.

The old saw “You can take the boy off the farm but you can’t take the farm out of the boy” may well obtain here, Chicago style.


30 posted on 08/25/2011 9:34:34 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: flowerplough

When former Mayor Daley knocked down the old housing projects, there was an influx into the suburbs and downstate college towns. Guess how that worked out......


31 posted on 08/25/2011 9:41:10 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: mac_truck; All

What happened in 2008?

Oh yeah, Kalifornication went for the hopey changey thing. And in 2010 they went for a retread disco era governor whose nickname is “Moonbeam”!!!

Georgia on the other hand voted GOP despite having a large black population (unlike Western or Nothern States).


32 posted on 08/25/2011 9:57:32 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Arrrgh! I SWORE nothing could make me move North, but......


33 posted on 08/25/2011 10:25:40 AM PDT by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: MNDude

AMEN!

My boss is a liberal and moved here from a big city. First thing he does he inserts himself in the local paper with numerous article bitching and moaning about how us yokels should do this or that the way his former Big City did things and in the process insulting about ever person possible. Finally the local paper stopped printing all his articles and severely cut back on allowing him access. No one listened so he decided to try and insert himself in local politics.

After a final blistering letter to the editor about how politically inactive the locals are he runs for city council. Only problem is Mr. Liberal Get Involved, Do What I Tell You never bothered to register to vote-disqualified.

He finally registers for the next election and gets thumped by a 19 yr. old local kid.

Undaunted he has managed to find some other local transplants and they gather and moan and bitch about local issues and try and infiltrate and gain power, it’s fun to watch.


34 posted on 08/25/2011 12:15:19 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: Hotlanta Mike
What happened in 2008?

There a coup de tat engineered by the US Senate..didn't you get the memo?

Meanwhile California's contributions to conservatism outweigh Georgia's tenfold.

35 posted on 08/25/2011 2:05:02 PM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Meanwhile California’s contributions to conservatism outweigh Georgia’s tenfold.


Like gang violence, sanctuary cities, and gay marriage?


36 posted on 08/25/2011 3:19:23 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: mac_truck

You know last year Georgia passed legislation making it illegal for illegals to pay in state tuition fees for state colleges and universities. Also if administrators know someone is illegal they have to report it...how about Kalifornia?

‘California Dream Act one step closer to reality’ [Reconquista of CA is now 100% Complete]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2769149/posts


37 posted on 08/26/2011 10:32:13 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: flowerplough

Stay the hell away from Arizona.


38 posted on 11/28/2012 7:10:39 PM PST by libh8er
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