“Memphis looks like a Mad Max type ghetto.”
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Yes, and it is sad. I was born in Memphis in 1944. My father was a main street merchant, and I spent many Saturdays on Main Street. Memphis had been rated the nations cleanest and quietest city in the nation, as well as having the finest fire department in the US, as they always hosted the national firefighters convention every year.
The city has apparently gone to the dogs over the last ten years, as the B/W ration has reversed from 60w/40b to 60b/40w.
Blacks now control all of the government, and all that was good about Memphis has been destroyed.
Memphis, and much of America, has “Gone With the Wind”.
I was last in Memphis in Jan. 2005, when I flew out for the last time.
It hasn’t been 40% White since the ‘80s. As of this decade, it’s about 27% White, 7% Hispanic and 63% Black. If it hadn’t done a lot of annexing, the White population would be even lower.
Even in Shelby County, the population was plurality/majority White up until 2000 when Blacks became a plurality (49%) and Whites dipped to just under 45%. As of 2010, Blacks are now a majority of 53% and Whites have dropped to below 38% (Hispanics 6%). The population is approaching 1,000,000, but only the Black and especially Hispanic populations are growing while Whites flee to the suburban counties (especially either Tipton County or Desoto County, MS).