Fact is the extreme green-gay leftism of Sattle did it. Property values skyrocketed close to the city center and wealthy gays moved in, desiring the urban lifestyle...upscale.
Blacks there are seeing what middle class whites have for many years...but they’ve got enough cache with the left wing press to get a sob article. It really helps to get sympathy when you vote Democrat.
I lived for 15 months in the Tacoma region in the early 80’s, and noted even then...long before housing prices escalated...that there just wasn’t much of a black population in the Tacoma-Seattle region.
If you asked most blacks that you bumped into...they were there because they’d been with the Army and stationed at Fort Lewis. Other than that ‘magnet’....there was no reason for black population growth in the region.
In the early 80’s, there was no a single black-theme nightclub in the entire region except around Fort Lewis itself.
I do agree with the pricing of property affecting some to leave the area. The thing with the two major national park/forest area (west and east of Seattle-Tacoma) is that it really limits any boom-town or cheaper living accommodations.
so, your contention is that Queers crowded out the blacks in Seattle?
Are there really that many queers?