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Picture-perfect city was America's whitest in 1980 - here's how it changed
Daily Mail ^ | 5-18-26 | Will Potter

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.

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: dailyfail; minnesota; newulm; race; willpotter

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To: Lazamataz

😆


81 posted on 05/18/2026 11:39:28 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MarlonRando

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.


82 posted on 05/18/2026 11:44:11 AM PDT by BFW
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To: dfwgator

“centrist”

Translated: Stab you in the back when you’re not looking.


83 posted on 05/18/2026 12:03:47 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: ansel12

Piece of work, he is.


84 posted on 05/18/2026 12:04:33 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869; Vermont Lt

It was an extraordinary post for sure.


85 posted on 05/18/2026 12:08:42 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: MarlonRando

“””””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.


86 posted on 05/18/2026 12:14:30 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: EnderWiggin1970

Not a racist word. of course. They would have no need.


87 posted on 05/18/2026 12:30:47 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: Vermont Lt; wardaddy

“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.


88 posted on 05/18/2026 2:23:37 PM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: MarlonRando

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89 posted on 05/18/2026 5:20:06 PM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter in)
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To: dfwgator

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 .


90 posted on 05/18/2026 5:33:31 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: MarlonRando

settled by Germans in the 1800’s

nice little town spent a weekend then in 1987 for a vocational school conference


91 posted on 05/18/2026 6:39:07 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: dfwgator

“The only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Puckett” - Chris Rock (1996)

and both are now dead....


92 posted on 05/18/2026 6:57:14 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: Antoninus

I recently saw a young white couple pushing a stroller down the street - in it was a f***ing MONKEY!


93 posted on 05/18/2026 8:10:57 PM PDT by Skid289 (In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. )
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To: MarlonRando

The number one indicator of high crime is the percentage of black residents. It is supported by decades of statistics.


94 posted on 05/18/2026 9:06:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: MarlonRando

I grew up in an Okie transplanted town in California. Now it is 99% Mexico.


95 posted on 05/19/2026 5:01:19 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

oh definitely. Before i left so cal years ago, I could drive around all day and never see another White person.


96 posted on 05/19/2026 10:32:56 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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