Will the Atlanta metro have a black plurality in the future?

[Pemgin]

Originally Posted by Mississippi Alabama Line

Can you dispute his facts? Or it is something you just don't want to hear?

Are you saying it's a fact that gangs and crime are a part of black culture?

[Mississippi Alabama Line]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

Are you saying it's a fact that gangs and crime are a part of black culture?

I'm the one who asked the question. Can you dispute his assertion (not fact, I guess) that Memphis has a big gang culture, per capita?

[Turnerbro]

Originally Posted by bhammaster

Here we go with the white nationalist chiming in.

It's the sad truth. Just to be clear I'm half black myself and grew up in a predominantly black suburb of D.C. I think both D.C and Atlanta are incredible in terms of black wealth, but neither can shake the unfortunate stereotype that exist.

[jero23]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

The value isn't tied to land in urban areas; otherwise our collective wealth would be much higher than it is now seeing as though we've been concentrated in urban cores for several decades now.

It doesn't matter where we end up--central cities, outlying neighborhoods, suburbs--because the result (in terms of land value) will be the same.

There is always value in the property or land otherwise there wouldn't ​be a concerted effort to these land grabs in urban areas nationwide. The land value curve is very true and is why so many are now so gung ho at revitalizing all of the residential neighborhoods surrounding Downtown and Midtown here.

[jimjim5]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

In case anyone is wondering, Memphis is currently the only metro with a black plurality. I believe its around 40%, and its white population is like 37%.

Hello?? You are forgetting a lot of cities. Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and Birmingham to name some.

[coolieandre]

It's a global affair. The world has more people of color and more people of color have acquired wealth. The battle is whites want to keep dominance and control of the luxury, uppity areas which are the city cores. That's why you frequently have posts like this appear daily on this website in most of the threads with growing cities... ATL, DAL, DC, Etc...

So to answer the question, perhaps more people in Atlanta moving in will be black but the trend in comparable to cities globally as white races are not reproducing as much as people of color.

[Southern Soul Bro]

Originally Posted by jimjim5

Hello?? You are forgetting a lot of cities. Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, and Birmingham to name some.

This is about entire metro areas, not just city proper. All of those cities are majority black but their metro areas are not.

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by jero23

There is always value in the property or land otherwise there wouldn't ​be a concerted effort to these land grabs in urban areas nationwide. The land value curve is very true and is why so many are now so gung ho at revitalizing all of the residential neighborhoods surrounding Downtown and Midtown here.

The value in the property or land has to do with who lives in and around that property. That's how it has always worked in American society.

Land values in Black neighborhoods in the core of Atlanta only shot up when enough White folks showed interest. Otherwise, those values would have always been high.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

In case anyone is wondering, Memphis is currently the only metro with a black plurality. I believe its around 40%, and its white population is like 37%.

Actually, according to Census Data posted on Wikipedia, there are no large metro areas in the US that are majority black. Jackson comes the closest, at 47.7%. Memphis is second, at 45.7%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...an_populations

[PTC Dad]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

Mapping America?s Futures Look at the current trends projected for the Atlanta metro. From 2010 to 2030 they project Atlanta metro's black population to increase by 1.2 million, but the white population to increase by only 101 thousand. I know these trends are from 2010 and a lot has changed since then. But it is interesting to see that projection.

Here's an interesting article on the rapid transformation of Atlanta's suburbs over the past couple of decades. There does seem to be a move towards the suburbs for African Americans, and despite the move to the suburbs, most of Atlanta remains highly segregated which hurts everyone.

https://southernspaces.org/2015/segr...pward-mobility