Posted on 03/20/2011 11:57:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs, GOP Regions to Become Democratic
By Paul Shepard on Mar 18th 2011 10:50AM
Politically speaking, America's Republican stronghold is the deep South, where vast suburbs surrounding cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond and Charlotte are decidedly white and often politically conservative.
But population trends -- revealed in the last U.S. census -- show blacks and Latinos moving in to southern suburbs in high numbers, which threaten the notion of Republicans enjoying a safe harbor in southern states for much longer.
Census estimates show a 58 percent increase in the number of blacks who moved to the suburbs, compared to 41 percent for the rest of the country. This increase is up 52 percent from 2000.
Unless there is a large voting shift in black folks, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, the population shift could prove to be a bonanza for the Democratic party with an infusion of Democratic votes in traditionally Republican-leaning districts.
The news isn't much better for the Republican party when it comes to Hispanics, who also tend to vote more consistently for Democratic candidates.
Hispanics represented a larger portion of southern population gains than blacks did in 13 of the 16 southern states in the last 10 years, according to the census. Hispanics were a larger portion in just seven states from 1990 to 2000.
So as greater racial and ethnic integration come to America's South, greater numbers of black and brown faces in southern cities and suburbs could bring an end to a longtime GOP-voting advantage and shift the nation's political landscape.
Somebody needs to inform this guy that the GOP has recently achieved an almost supermajority in both state houses in GA. I don’t think its trending Libtard anytime soon.
He is dead wrong. The blacks moving to the suburbs are educated families who want good schools and away from the filth and gangs of the city. My neighborhood is very diverse and most of the obama yard signs I saw two years ago were guilty white idiots.
Now that Barrack Mugabe is present they are losing their homes in the suburbs too.
Democracy is two union public school teachers and a taxpayer deciding if the teachers deserve a raise.
(A modern take-off on ‘democracy is two wolves and a sheep taking a vote on what’s for dinner.’)
Lots of kids because they are Catholic.
Lots more in general because of illegals.
That’s why they’ve overtaken blacks so quickly as the larger minority group. Yes, abortion has slowed growth of the black population but that just put hispanics over them more quickly, they would have done so anyway because of the sheer number being born.
And the GOP Media and the Liberals in the GOP will use these bogus stats to push the “we need to bring in more Hispanic voters” (ie Illegal Alien Amnesty) nonsense....the GOP finds another reason to ignore the conservative base
The blacks that move into the suburbs are usually conservative. The two families in our neighborhod displayed Republican signs during election season. They are nice folks.
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The first ones to move in are, but unfortunately as more whites move out the Democrat blacks move in and when it gets to around 40% you either run or you are too old to run and have to live with the crimes.
This is nothing a little creativity in this years re-districting can’t handle.
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I have no problem with the black families that have purchased houses near me. No problem either with any latinos, asians, russians, or any others that wish to enjoy a pleasent american life. Almost all RAT politicians have jumped ship in the south. Anyone is welcome long as they work for a living and maintain a civilized/moral lifestyle. But any SEIU/ACORN leaches will find us conservatives(in GA)inhospitable regardless of color or race.
I also noticed this under that article...
BET Networks Chair and CEO Debra L. Lee is joining President Barack Obama’s management advisory board designed to improve the relationships and interactions between private business and federal government.
Exactly. He also assumes that people's voting patterns do not change over their lifetimes. This is a purely racial argument: once you are born Black, you'll never vote Republican. Voting Democratic is a racial feature just like the color of the skin, he thinks.
Prince George’s County MD is the wealthiest majority black county in America, with miles of McMansions owned by upwardly mobile well educated black families. it votes close to 75% Dem, and my precinct went 90% for Da Won. Why? They are gubmint workers or affirmative action hires by Beltway Bandits who need “minority” numbers.
Their entitlement mentality would blow your mind. There are families within 100 yards of my house who have college degrees and household incomes of a quarter million, but they believe truly that they are suppressed, repressed, and due reparations. The current climate is all about getting even with whitey.
Thanks to the taxpayers, government jobs for Blacks are responsible for their “movin’ on up” to the better neighborhoods instead of staying in the ‘hoods. As for Mexicans, they’re here because Democrats want them to vote Democrat in our elections.
There is no country in the world that could survive our current demographic trends.
I have been living in South Forsyth County for the past 9 years. We have seen a greater influx of Asian and some residents from India.
Foreclosures helping change color of some suburbs
(Title doesn’t make sense when you read the story)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41810267/ns/us_news-life/
Three years ago, Lamar Grace left Detroit for the suburb of Southfield. He got a good deal - a 3,000-square-foot colonial that once was worth $220,000. In foreclosure, he paid $109,000.
The neighbors were not pleased.
“They don’t want to live next door to ghetto folks,” he says.
That his neighbors are black, like Grace, is immaterial. Many in the black middle class moved out of Detroit and settled in the northern suburbs years ago; now, due to foreclosures, it is easy to buy or rent houses on the cheap here. The result has been a new, poorer wave of arrivals from the city, and growing tensions between established residents and the newcomers.
“My six-figure blacks are very concerned about multiple-family, economically depressed people moving into rental homes and apartments, bringing in their bad behaviors.” says Southfield Police Chief Joseph Thomas, who is himself black.
The stats aren't good. Southfield is a black suburb here and over 80% D. Down in the Atlanta area, minority rates correlate with the D strength.
It's the same story. Liberals (white or black) wreck a city, move out, and bring the liberalism with them.
I should say for those who don’t know, Southfield borders Detroit.
This is already the reality of liberal CA. Suburbs there are liberal too in many cases.
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