Posted on 08/25/2011 7:46:24 AM PDT by flowerplough
For black Northerners, the reverse migration makes economic -- and emotional -- sense. / RE: Chicago's Shrinking Black Community Experts say that a reverse migration to the suburbs and the South may be irreversible.
Why We're Moving: Thomas Clark was one of those committed New Yorkers. "For me it was the whole urban dynamic of being in a big city, being in the financial center of the world," said the former New York state banking official and onetime president and CEO of Carver Federal Savings Bank. Commuting into Manhattan from his White Plains, N.Y., home, the self-described "little guy from Lackawanna, N.Y.," took advantage of every social and cultural opportunity and "exposure to so many different people."
Now, Clark is content with a few visits back a year. Drawn by the cost of living, quality of life and the weather, the 67-year-old Clark moved to Charlotte, N.C., when he retired in November 2008. He's not alone. "Most of the people I'm meeting are from somewhere else," he said.
Chicago's Shrinking: Roderick J. Harrison, a Howard University researcher, said he was not surprised earlier this year when the U.S. Census Bureau reported a dramatic decline in Chicago's black population.
The recession and perception of better economic opportunities in Southern states such as Georgia and Texas -- and even Western states like California, Nevada and Arizona -- have prompted a number of black Chicagoans to pack up their belongings and create new paths in a pattern being called reverse migration. It's similar to the historic journey created by their ancestors decades ago in the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North and Midwest.
Even the allure of Chicago being the hometown of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama, may not be enough to draw people back.
"Today's migration trend may be irreversible,'' Harrison, senior research scientist at the Office of Research Regulatory Compliance at Howard University, told The Root.
From the state that produced Jimmah Carter..spare us.
You didn’t have to vote for him...
Georgia has gone in the opposite direction compared to California over the past 20 years...our state politics are controlled by Republicans whereas California is controlled by enviro extremists, progressives, La Raza et al...
I didn’t vote for Jimmah.
With the way we’re cutting them off in Michigan, they can’t afford to stay.
maybe for poor trailer whites..
I hear whites in Atlanta complaining about the Africanization of the suburbs right now...which is why the main white draw is to the north of Atlanta to avoid it
As one who lived this way back 39 years ago let me explain how it works...we had to flee the black ghetto wave in 1972:
First, the decent blacks move in trying to get a better place to live....black cops, middle class folks....then sooner or later less desirable move in ...then more and more and by then whites and the original blacks have moved on...and then it's screwed till gay yuppies regentrify in 100 years
it works when it never gets to the “black suburb” phase you described...like where I live...small minority of blacks who can afford it and are two parent families and other than being libs and hip hop share many of my values
but you open the floodgates then you can forget it
and except for Detroit...and a few other rust belt holes most of ya’ll just don't understand like we have for 150 years now and counting...my state is 40% black, your's 6%...understand?
but the canard that pisses me off most is the one we were spoonfed for decades...that as blacks got richer they would get more conservative politically...what a foisted piece of propaganda
Guess we need to add it to D.C. on our list of cities where the local Democrat black power structure is freaking out about losing their “chocolate city”.
You should hear the squealing coming out of Detroit over the fact that John Conyers district boundaries are changing. He’s not even losing his district but they’re acting like it.
Good for you. How about Ronnie?
Black moving back south, huh? I applaud them for getting out of thee hell-hole of Chicago. The question is will they take the Chicago disease with them, or leave it behind.
The old saw “You can take the boy off the farm but you can’t take the farm out of the boy” may well obtain here, Chicago style.
When former Mayor Daley knocked down the old housing projects, there was an influx into the suburbs and downstate college towns. Guess how that worked out......
What happened in 2008?
Oh yeah, Kalifornication went for the hopey changey thing. And in 2010 they went for a retread disco era governor whose nickname is “Moonbeam”!!!
Georgia on the other hand voted GOP despite having a large black population (unlike Western or Nothern States).
Arrrgh! I SWORE nothing could make me move North, but......
AMEN!
My boss is a liberal and moved here from a big city. First thing he does he inserts himself in the local paper with numerous article bitching and moaning about how us yokels should do this or that the way his former Big City did things and in the process insulting about ever person possible. Finally the local paper stopped printing all his articles and severely cut back on allowing him access. No one listened so he decided to try and insert himself in local politics.
After a final blistering letter to the editor about how politically inactive the locals are he runs for city council. Only problem is Mr. Liberal Get Involved, Do What I Tell You never bothered to register to vote-disqualified.
He finally registers for the next election and gets thumped by a 19 yr. old local kid.
Undaunted he has managed to find some other local transplants and they gather and moan and bitch about local issues and try and infiltrate and gain power, it’s fun to watch.
There a coup de tat engineered by the US Senate..didn't you get the memo?
Meanwhile California's contributions to conservatism outweigh Georgia's tenfold.
Meanwhile California’s contributions to conservatism outweigh Georgia’s tenfold.
Like gang violence, sanctuary cities, and gay marriage?
You know last year Georgia passed legislation making it illegal for illegals to pay in state tuition fees for state colleges and universities. Also if administrators know someone is illegal they have to report it...how about Kalifornia?
‘California Dream Act one step closer to reality’ [Reconquista of CA is now 100% Complete]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2769149/posts
Stay the hell away from Arizona.
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