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I'm in LA an recently I've been seeing a trend where western black people who want to be in black areas but still stay in the west coast are moving here from the other west coast cities that are losing black pop, like I know some black ppl who moved here since 2010 from Portland, Bay Area, and Seattle I know that census wise we've been losing black pop in the but I think it will stabilize by the 2020 census, Cali in general is becoming more popular in the black community then the northeast cities, maybe cause of all the black related media coming out of SoCal recently (Straight Outta Compton movie, the OJ documentaries, all the hip hop coming out here: Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, YG etc.)
I'm in LA an recently I've been seeing a trend where western black people who want to be in black areas but still stay in the west coast are moving here from the other west coast cities that are losing black pop, like I know some black ppl who moved here since 2010 from Portland, Bay Area, and Seattle I know that census wise we've been losing black pop in the but I think it will stabilize by the 2020 census, Cali in general is becoming more popular in the black community then the northeast cities, maybe cause of all the black related media coming out of SoCal recently (Straight Outta Compton movie, the OJ documentaries, all the hip hop coming out here: Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, YG etc.)
Probably LA natives are leaving the West Coast for the south, generally speaking. The rest of the blacks on the West Coast still want to be close to home and not move across country so they move to LA.
I'm in LA an recently I've been seeing a trend where western black people who want to be in black areas but still stay in the west coast are moving here from the other west coast cities that are losing black pop, like I know some black ppl who moved here since 2010 from Portland, Bay Area, and Seattle I know that census wise we've been losing black pop in the but I think it will stabilize by the 2020 census, Cali in general is becoming more popular in the black community then the northeast cities, maybe cause of all the black related media coming out of SoCal recently (Straight Outta Compton movie, the OJ documentaries, all the hip hop coming out here: Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, YG etc.)
Aren't you also getting some Black people on the West Coast moving a little inland to say Sacramento(second Blackest major city in CA actually behind Oakland), the Inland Empire, Lancaster/Palmdale, as well as Las Vegas. I believe that Vegas is the Western metro with the highest Black percentage at about 10-11% Black.
Also, a similar thing is occurring in the Northeast, where some Black people just move a little further inland or to the suburbs, if they don't move Down South. That is partially why cities such as Rochester and Harrisburg are the Blackest major cities in their states.
I'm in LA an recently I've been seeing a trend where western black people who want to be in black areas but still stay in the west coast are moving here from the other west coast cities that are losing black pop, like I know some black ppl who moved here since 2010 from Portland, Bay Area, and Seattle I know that census wise we've been losing black pop in the but I think it will stabilize by the 2020 census, Cali in general is becoming more popular in the black community then the northeast cities, maybe cause of all the black related media coming out of SoCal recently (Straight Outta Compton movie, the OJ documentaries, all the hip hop coming out here: Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, YG etc.)
I'm working to get back there one day to LA. The cultural vibe is amazing and I prefer the West Coast to my current location in the South. Although the cost of living is excellent, and you can by a home for next to nothing compared to greater LA, there is still many things to be desired. I do know a lot of ATL people always talk about moving to California. every since I moved here, Ive known two people that were in the process of moving from ATL to LA. You might be on to something! Wages suck in GA, and I think career wise black people can get ahead and both places equally with a bachelors degree. Ive gotten work in both so I am speaking from experience.
However, I do think it would bottom out untill 2025, there's a lot of areas east of the 110 Freeway that are still shedding black populations that have been rooted there almost 60-70+ years. A lot of migration out of LA is still happening, and a lot of it is due to the COL and other factors. Like the above poster said, a lot of blacks are moving to Sacramento, Las Vegas, Phoenix and suburbs of LA (I.E. and High Desert cities).
Watched the BET Awards last night, a big platform for black media and entertainment and no better place to have it than Los Angeles. Yeah LA is still a black mecca... anyone who doubts this is blind or delusional. Visits don't count, you have to entrench yourself in the history of the city. Visit Leimert Park, Exposition; Watts Towers...then take a drive on Angeles Vista. Gotta show respect to what the metro has done for black people as it got a fairly late start in the growth game.
Watched the BET Awards last night, a big platform for black media and entertainment and no better place to have it than Los Angeles. Yeah LA is still a black mecca... anyone who doubts this is blind or delusional. Visits don't count, you have to entrench yourself in the history of the city. Visit Leimert Park, Exposition; Watts Towers...then take a drive on Angeles Vista. Gotta show respect to what the metro has done for black people as it got a fairly late start in the growth game.
LA is more of a legacy Black mecca; it doesn't have the current momentum of ATL, DC, Houston, Dallas, etc. but nobody can deny the cultural contributions it has made to Black America over the years.
Watched the BET Awards last night, a big platform for black media and entertainment and no better place to have it than Los Angeles. Yeah LA is still a black mecca... anyone who doubts this is blind or delusional. Visits don't count, you have to entrench yourself in the history of the city. Visit Leimert Park, Exposition; Watts Towers...then take a drive on Angeles Vista. Gotta show respect to what the metro has done for black people as it got a fairly late start in the growth game.
a lot of award shows are filmed in l.a. because of all the celebrities.
Aren't you also getting some Black people on the West Coast moving a little inland to say Sacramento(second Blackest major city in CA actually behind Oakland), the Inland Empire, Lancaster/Palmdale, as well as Las Vegas. I believe that Vegas is the Western metro with the highest Black percentage at about 10-11% Black.
Also, a similar thing is occurring in the Northeast, where some Black people just move a little further inland or to the suburbs, if they don't move Down South. That is partially why cities such as Rochester and Harrisburg are the Blackest major cities in their states.
Yeah that's going on here, but Lancaster-Palmdale is part of LA county and the I.E. Is part of the Greater La metro area, idk about percentage wise but the LA area is still has the largest number of black people in the west and in the top 10 in the country just by numbers, even higher if you add Riverside-San Bernardino to it as well, you gotta remember that unlike the south, LAs black population didn't boom till the 1950s and 60s when it suddenly blew up so there wasn't much of a foundation here then after the riots people stated leaving for the south where there already was a "bedrock" of black population that grew even more with immigration, eventually when the black population stabilizes here and black people start coming back I think the whole LA region could become more of a "black capital", maybe not to Atlanta levels but like NYC, but blacks still have a lot of political and cultural representation here, the CEO of LA Metro Phillip Washington is black for example.
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