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A Black Exodus from Chicago
Planetizen ^ | 19 March 2016 | James Brasuell

Posted on 03/24/2016 3:45:27 PM PDT by Lorianne

Black residents of Chicago are leaving for cities like Atlanta in massive numbers—away from the waves of crime tearing apart their hometown. ___

William Lee describes the crime and poverty driving black residents away from Chicago, where he lives in the South Side neighborhood of South Shore. According to Lee, "a multitude of black residents have called it quits with their hometown, searching for safety and prosperity beyond the city limits — my own friends and family among them." Lee adds: "It's been a humbling experience watching as those worlds, those communities filled with stable families and businesses, crumble into the dust." The data also backs up the personal anecdotes shared by Lee: the city lost 181,000 black residents between 2000 and 2010, according to the U.S. Census.

The article weaves more personal anecdotes with the research and data that describes the demographic trends at work in Chicago. The persistent theme that runs throughout the article: crime and its terrible effects on the communities of Chicago.

Full Story: A crumbling, dangerous South Side creates exodus of black Chicagoans

Published on Friday, March 18, 2016 in Chicago Tribune

(Excerpt) Read more at planetizen.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Georgia; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blacks; bluezones; chicago; exodus; rahm
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1 posted on 03/24/2016 3:45:27 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Detroit


2 posted on 03/24/2016 3:46:46 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Lorianne

Heading to Atlanta to escape crime? I sense a face-palm coming on ...


3 posted on 03/24/2016 3:47:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Buchanan: A note of caution: This establishment is not going quietly.)
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To: Lorianne

Does Atlanta have great Welfare resources? Lots of Section 8 housing and easy access to EBT grocery stores?

Just wonderin.


4 posted on 03/24/2016 3:48:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: Lorianne

Yeh.. I’ve noticed.. to the Madison WI. area.. Refugee sanctuary - come rape us...


5 posted on 03/24/2016 3:48:51 PM PDT by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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To: Lorianne
What difference does it make?

They will carry their culture of illegitimacy, drugs, and violence with them wherever they go. They'll just turn wherever they go next into the same he!!hole that they're running away from.

6 posted on 03/24/2016 3:49:40 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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7 posted on 03/24/2016 3:49:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: showme_the_Glory
"Detroit"

Yes in a way. Many blacks that had enough left for the South East Michigan burbs especially for the schools. Integrated, and not the picture of that Obama paints for us, perhaps even what Dr. King envisioned.

8 posted on 03/24/2016 3:50:07 PM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: Lorianne

the data cited is so old it is not relevant


9 posted on 03/24/2016 3:50:14 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: Lorianne
The Great Migration

in reverse

10 posted on 03/24/2016 3:52:02 PM PDT by Roccus (Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
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To: NonValueAdded
Chicago demographics are now 44% white, 32% black, and 28% Hispanic. Hispanics don't like blacks and their gangs can be just as violent.

This could be a gain for Trump, as he drives a wedge between the Dems black and Hispanic factions.

11 posted on 03/24/2016 3:54:04 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Lorianne

This isn’t all that new...it started as far back as the 80s (if not earlier) when concerned parents sent their children to live with extended family in the South to get them away from the city’s gangs and other bad influences.

Unfortunately, in many cases, they ended up bringing the gang influences with them...and now the Chicago gangs have taken root in the south as well. I expect the process will repeat itself here.


12 posted on 03/24/2016 3:54:37 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Lorianne

Incredible. the black population of Chicago declined by over 10% from 2000 to 2010.

Unfortunately for Chicago and Rahm and his boys, the 10% who left are the most productive, best educated, least likely to join the gangs, etc. etc.


14 posted on 03/24/2016 3:57:35 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Lorianne

The cancer metastasizes.


15 posted on 03/24/2016 3:57:53 PM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Atlanta also has very generous weapons laws (not exactly “Constitutional carry” but getting close); think “open carry of a machine pistol with an easy-to-get permit”. Can’t assume would-be victims are impotent.


16 posted on 03/24/2016 3:59:13 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("Get the he11 out of my way!" - John Galt)
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To: NonValueAdded

Heading to Atlanta to escape crime? I sense a face-palm coming on ...


The people featured in the article are young professional types, who are not going to live in the ghetto of Atlanta.

And, they mention that housing costs are quite a bit lower in Atlanta. So they are probably getting some nice housing for a lot less than if they simply moved to suburban Chicago.


17 posted on 03/24/2016 4:00:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Lazamataz

You’re so screwed.


18 posted on 03/24/2016 4:00:39 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Lorianne

19 posted on 03/24/2016 4:01:11 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: Lorianne

A couple of years ago I read a piece describing how most northern cities would face declining populations; in the larger scheme of things, it makes no sense to deal with heating costs and weather uncertainties (business/school closings, power outages and such). I guess warmer areas, while they may deal with air conditioning costs, deal with less of the other stuff.

NYC and maybe Chicago were expected to be the only ones that remained as large cities; the rest (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Philly, Minneapolis, etc.) were expected to face ongoing population declines. I don’t know enough about these places to see how it plays out.


20 posted on 03/24/2016 4:04:41 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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