Posted on 07/18/2008 10:17:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is drawing to a close.
In Washington, a historically black church is trying to attract white members to survive. Atlanta's next mayoral race is expected to feature the first competitive white candidate since the 1980s. San Francisco has lost so many African-Americans that Mayor Gavin Newsom created an "African-American Out-Migration Task Force and Advisory Committee" to help retain black residents.
"The city is experiencing growth, yet we're losing African-American families disproportionately," Mr. Newsom says. When that happens, "we lose part of our soul."
For much of the 20th century, the proportion of whites shrank in most U.S. cities. In recent years the decline has slowed considerably -- and in some significant cases has reversed. Between 2000 and 2006, eight of the 50 largest cities, including Boston, Seattle and San Francisco, saw the proportion of whites increase, according to Census figures. The previous decade, only three cities saw increases.
The changing racial mix is stirring up quarrels over class and culture. Beloved institutions in traditionally black communities -- minority-owned restaurants, book stores -- are losing the customers who supported them for decades. As neighborhoods grow more multicultural, conflicts over home prices, taxes and education are opening a new chapter in American race relations.
Part of the demographic shift is simple math: So many whites had abandoned cities over the past half-century, there weren't as many left to lose. Whites make up 66% of the general U.S. population, but only about 40% of large cities. Sooner or later, the pendulum was bound to swing back, and that appears to be starting.
The Census data "suggests that white flight from large cities may have bottomed out in the 1990s," says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
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Conflicting reports on this topic.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
looks like Chicago and NYC are still managing to scare away white people with their socialist policies. Maybe Atlanta, Detroit and SF could learn from the socialist mayors of those glimmering cities on the hill(formerly known as a waste heap).
How interesting that losing whites was fine, but losing non-whites requires the formation of a “task force.”
Hyphenated Americanism is a canker sore on our society.
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But those cities (parts of them) become less filthy and crime-ridden when more white people move in. Of course, what they also found is that they gave Section 8 to low income people and dispersed them from the large project buildings, even outside cities. Therefore, crime spread into suburban areas, even as it dropped off in the city proper.
It seems to me that offically trying to retain any level of any race in the population is as much RACISM as attempting to deny residency to anyone on the basis of race.
Does this mean no more bean pies and Final Calls when exiting I-295?
Mr. Newsom says. When that happens, “we lose part of our soul, brother.”
But Ray Nagin said he wanted a chocolate city!
You never heard of white chocolate?
The greenies who ditched their evil cars to "save the planet", and now only ride the bus or train.
The best kind is from Switzerland.
Isn’t he running for president?
Obambi: the first Mulatto-American Prez.
They are sensing that their voting bloc is in peril of vaishing.
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