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Is it really worthwhile to compare a city that is 60% Black (D.C.) to one that is 25% or less (Houston)?
Better off comparing it to somewhere like Atlanta or New Orleans.
Is it really worthwhile to compare a city that is 60% Black (D.C.) to one that is 25% or less (Houston)?
Better off comparing it to somewhere like Atlanta or New Orleans.
Thats what I said earlier. It may seem more integrated than Houston because in a city that is 60 percent black it takes a lot of work to avoid interacting with blacks. It is deceptive integration.
Yes, Houston is even worse. Generally speaking, blacks tend to be much, much poorer than whites in the United States, and thus they do not live around whites. So every town pretty much has this stark black-white divide. While the DC metro area is still very segregated, you find many more blacks living among whites than you do in Houston.
And blacks living in Prince George's County are not earning incomes similar to what whites are earning in Bethesda and Potomac. Although many blacks tend to self-segregate, many of them could not live in Bethesda even if they wanted to because it's unaffordable. A house in Bethesda would probably costs twice as much as a house in Bowie. If anything, blacks in P.G. County are more on par with whites in Loudon and Prince William County, but even they are outearning them.
I think Atlanta is really smoke and mirrors. It doesn't take a whole lot to get an interest-only mortgage, buy a big house in Clayton County, and get a Mercedes Benz. Atlanta's very much a "show me the money town," where people are driving around big cars and living in big houses, but have little savings and are on the brink of financial ruin. They're basically hood rich. I loved my time in Atlanta, but I definitely consider DC to be more of a black mecca. You're far more likely to meet a black journalist for the NY Times or a black girl working as an economist at the World Bank here than you are in Atlanta. Plus, DC is the home of the stylish, frizzy-haired Corrine Bailey Rae type chicks (Brooklyn is a close second), whom I like very, very, very much.
Thats what I said earlier. It may seem more integrated than Houston because in a city that is 60 percent black it takes a lot of work to avoid interacting with blacks. It is deceptive integration.
I don't think it takes much work at all. Just look at rents in Adams-Morgan and Logan Circle, which are two of our more trendy and bohemian neighborhoods. With rents this high, all of your neighbors are going to be either yuppies or buppies.
DC's black educated class is much bigger than Houston's. Check out these photos. I tried to get as many panoramic shots as possible so it didn't look like I was cherrypicking (i.e. the two black guys who happen to be the only black people there). You are not going to find this type of mixture outside of NYC, DC and maybe Chicago. There's nothing like this in Houston.
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DC's black educated class is much bigger than Houston's. Check out these photos.
you have been saying that forever but it means nothing. these photos are a dime a dozen in almost any city in the US. yeah people need to eat, yeah black people too.
D.C is dominated by black culture on the eastern part of the metro so the most integration I would say is in Upper NW and the western part of the metro...I do appreciate the white folks that do live on the eastern part of town because its home to them too
D.C is dominated by black culture on the eastern part of the metro so the most integration I would say is in Upper NW and the western part of the metro...I do appreciate the white folks that do live on the eastern part of town because its home to them too
There's a lot more black-white mixing around U Street, Shaw, and Ledroit Park than there is in Upper NW or Northern Virginia.
Non-hispanic black population change between 2000 and 2008 :
Houston metro : + 152,000
DC Metro : + 110,000
Dallas metro : + 166,000
NY Metro : + 49,000
Los Angeles metro : - 49,000
Atlanta metro : + 473,000
Boston metro : + 40,000
Miami metro : + 139,000
San Francisco metro : - 30,000
Chicago metro : - 8,000
Interesting numbers no ?
Houston and Dallas metro are ahead DC in growth, but DC is one of the best about that anyway But Atlanta is really the master
This is very true, its impressive to see that one city can attract so much of one segment of the american population for various reasons. Most of Atlanta's explosive growth has been from this migration to Atlanta in the black community. In Houston, when you add a large amount of one population it isnt as noticeable, it will just blend in with all the other represented races.
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