Cities with significant black populations that aren't recognized by national cognizant (accents, food)
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I knew about Aliquippa, but I never knew the Pittsburgh area had so many towns with sizable black populations. I was just looking through some other threads and saw a town called Wilkinsburg, PA that's around 62% black. One poster was naming some of the middle class black neighborhoods in the city and some of the places that middle class blacks frequent there and the Pittsburgh area as whole. Of course it may not be comparable to the Atlantas or DCs of the country, but PITT seems to have vibrant AA population. Very interesting stuff.
No??? SO, if it's based on SIZE, is that raw numbers or percentage?
If raw numbers, you HAVE to say
New York/Brooklyn cause there are like 2 million black people living there. But even that is only like a quarter of the population there.
Chicago city has nearly a million black people by itself. Without adding in Gary, etc
Detroit alone has like 600K plus
Washington DC alone has about 300K... Then try adding in Prince George Co. & the rest of the surrounding areas...
Atlanta. Atlanta alone has over 200K black people. Then Dekalb has another 400K black people. The Atlanta metro area has somewhere near 2million black people...
By numbers, you have to consider NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston,
But not Miami...
Miami only has like 70K black people. That is DWARFED by other cities.
And LA.... Yeah, there are like 300K+ in the city. BUT that 300K is only about a 10th of the city population...
The raw numbers can be misleading. Which is why I think it should be more by percentage if being judged by size.
Actually, Brooklyn/Kings County is around 33-35% Black and has about 2,570,000 people overall. So, there are about 870,000 Black people that live there.
A new community that just came to mind is Xenia OH. While the overall city demographics show it to be about 13-14% Black, historically its East End is a predominately Black section that is right near 2 HBCU's(Wilberforce College and Central State of Ohio) in adjacent Wilberforce. This article mentions how the city was a "mecca" of sorts, along with nearby cities/communities such as Springfield, Yellow Springs and Chillicothe: https://books.google.com/books?id=Xf...page&q&f=false It appears that neighborhoods in this part of Xenia can range from lower income to lower/straight middle class in terms of residents. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilber...l.google.com-6
Jackson and Flint are pretty small places. Flint has 50-something thousand black people.
Jackson is kind of odd as well, given that it is in MS. Flint may surprise some people in terms of its Black percentage, which was the point of this thread.
I believe that Charleston is a respectable 15% Black. WV State is just outside of Charleston next to Dunbar, which is also about 15% Black. Some smaller communities near there like Montgomery and Mount Hope are close to 20% Black. Some towns in the Eastern Panhandle near DC have decent percentages too.
I believe that Roanoke VA is about 30% Black.
I guess that Milwaukee at around 40% Black and a metro that is about 17% Black may surprise some people.
After reading the original post again, I want to also say that in Upstate NY, there have been/are Black people in positions like mayor, school superintendent, on common councils of cities(if not the head of the council), police chiefs and other leadership positions in recent years. So, I just wanted to say that the representation has been and is displayed here. Here is an interesting article: Black Women are Increasingly in Charge of Upstate School Districts
Actually, in the Institute/Dunbar area, there is a small area(census block group) that is predominately Black(62.3%) and has a median household income above the state figure. At the census tract level, the median household income is at the state figure and it is 64.9% Black. It is near WV State University and I believe that some work at the Union Carbide plant in that area. While it is a county school district, the kids in that area go to South Charleston High, which is in the 28-30% Black range in terms of student enrollment. South Charleston High School
On the other side of Charleston is Malden and Rand. The census block group that covers Malden and the northern end of Rand is/was about 23-24% Black and the other census block group that covers the rest of Rand(or most of the rest of it) is/was about 30-31% Black. Booker T. Washington grew up in Malden and Randy Moss is from Rand. Kids in this area go to what is now Riverside High in Belle(Moss went to the now consolidated DuPont High), which is about 7-8% Black. Riverside High School | Home of the Warriors
Charleston's West Side has the highest concentration within the city and is highly/predominately Black in some parts of that side of town. Kids can go to either George Washington High(about 9-10% Black) or the state's Blackest HS in Capital High, which is about 33-35% Black and I believe has good programs. Home
St. Albans is another community in Kanawha County that has a visible Black population(only about 5-6%, HS is about 7-8%). Nearby Jefferson is about 10%.
So, the Charleston West Side into Dunbar/Institute(maybe parts of South Charleston) is the best bet in terms of a serious Black concentration in that area and the 2 high schools that the kids tend to go to are actually solid, if I'm not mistaken. This is in response to this post: http://www.city-data.com/forum/31018037-post62.html
Very interesting observation, although it may have something to do with 2 things:
1) Region - 28% black on the West Coast is high for a city, in the south it's not.
2) Although Nashville has a slightly higher % of blacks, whites still make up the vast majority of the city. This is unlike Oakland, one of the most diverse cities in the nation, with large amounts of blacks, asians, hispanics, and whites. Blacks still (slightly) represent the largest racial group in the city.
With Nashville, I wouldn't be surprised if pre city/county consolidation, that the city of Nashville would be predominately Black or close to it. It's Black percentage is "diluted" due to being a consolidated city-county(for the most part).
Absolutely. The answer to your previous question about Black folk moving downstate: yes.
How long before the places that we "run" to become the places that we "ran" from? Do we really think that it is coincidence that places like Detroit, Chicago, and L.A., for example, are losing their Black populations? We weren't wanted in those cities in the first place. Read Sidney Wilhelm's book: Who Needs the Negro? Read Gunnar Myrdal's book: An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Better yet, let's just stick our heads in the sand. Jesus will make things better baby. History bears that out!
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. What are we doing differently in our adopted cities? Seriously! Are we really preparing for tomorrow? Or, do we as The Last Poets so eloquently stated, continue to "party and bullhitt, and party and bullhitt, and party and bullhitt." We brag about the biggest Chinatown, Korea-town, etc. Where are the Blacktowns in these dynamite cities that we are flocking to? Where is the Blacktown in the cities that we left? Where is this centralized place that we come together and circulate our dollar? Where is this Blacktown where the Whites, Asians, and others come to spend their money, buying the products and services that we provide? Would they take their money out of their communities to spend with us if we did had said institution? Yet we brag about others creating institutions; and we can't wait to spend our money in their institutions. Black folk, we do this to our collective detriment!
Whatever! Let's carry on deluding ourselves. It requires much less work.
We had those, as this book illustrated during time before Urban Renewal: NYPL Digital Collections
Some areas exist, but are a shell of their former selves or businesses are dispersed.
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