Posted on 05/18/2026 7:45:43 AM PDT by MarlonRando
Describing the city as a 'very homogenous place by national standards', Howison noted that New Ulm trails behind state and national averages for its diversity.
'They’re somewhat out of step with the larger demographic trends,' Howison said.
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When white residents move into historically Black neighborhoods, the demographic shift often triggers gentrification. While it can increase economic investment and resources, it frequently causes property values and rents to skyrocket. This can lead to the displacement of long-time residents and cultural tensions.
Economic and Housing Impacts
Property Taxes and Rents: The influx of higher-income (often white) residents drives up the cost of living. This frequently prices out long-time Black families who can no longer afford rising rents or property taxes.
Business Turnover: Established Black-owned businesses may be pushed out by rising commercial rents or by changing consumer bases.
Investment: The influx generally brings improved city services, better retail options, and rehabilitated infrastructure to the area.
Social Dynamics and Culture
Community Tensions: Conflicts can arise when newcomers attempt to change existing community traditions or organizations, rather than joining and supporting the ones already established by long-time residents.
Policing and Safety: Dynamics can change if newcomers utilize law enforcement for minor disputes, creating friction with established residents.
Integration Patterns: Sociological research notes that some neighborhoods experience stable integration if housing involves rentals (which allow for diverse mixing), though this is often a precursor to complete demographic turnover in housing markets.
Historical Context
This trend reverses the historical pattern of “white flight,” where white residents fled urban centers for suburbs, often leaving Black communities isolated. Now, many white households are moving back to historically minority, inner-city neighborhoods close to downtown’s.
Facts:
When a large number of blacks move in to a specific area property values drop.
When a large number of whites move in to a specific area property values rise.
Rich blacks do not by a large majority live in the hood.
“centrist”
Translated: Stab you in the back when you’re not looking.
Piece of work, he is.
It was an extraordinary post for sure.
“””””The Aztecs, not long ago, were cutting people’s hearts out so that the sun would go up and down.”””””
My first date with that Mexican gal in Juarez went really well but on the second date when she told me the sun rose and set on me on the way to meet her family, I dumped her and left the area.
Not a racist word. of course. They would have no need.
“I can sense the Totenkopf tattoos peaking out under the covering ink.”
That reminds me of back when the Bush junior virtue signallers told the border hawks of California that we are xenophobic racist nativists.
Good times. Always nice to hear from the Smugly Self Satisified wing.
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You are an XTC fan AND Monty Python fan ? Saw Monty Python live at The City Center in NYC back in the mid 70’s .
settled by Germans in the 1800’s
nice little town spent a weekend then in 1987 for a vocational school conference
“The only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Puckett” - Chris Rock (1996)
and both are now dead....
I recently saw a young white couple pushing a stroller down the street - in it was a f***ing MONKEY!
The number one indicator of high crime is the percentage of black residents. It is supported by decades of statistics.
I grew up in an Okie transplanted town in California. Now it is 99% Mexico.
oh definitely. Before i left so cal years ago, I could drive around all day and never see another White person.
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