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I think black neighborhoods don't exist anymore, for the most part. Black folks live all over the city like all the other races\ ethnic groups. Compton is hispanic.
There is an upscale neighborhood that may still be majority black: Baldwin Hills\ Ladera Hts.
Compton is majority Hispanic, but not overwhelmingly so. 62% in the last census and I think that it may have declined in just the last couple years. Baldwin Hills and Ladera Heights are definitely still majority black.
FWIW LA still does have a swath that is still about 50% black or more. Basically the west side of Compton, North Carson, North Gardena. Southern South LA, North Inglewood, Crenshaw, etc. It's pretty much contiguous, but only a few miles wide. It probably has over 600,000 people in maybe 60 square miles.
Yorktown, Wynnefiled, Wynnfield Heights, Overbrook Park, Overbrook Farms, Olney, East and West Oak Lane, Germantown, Stenton. All some pretty awesome nearly all black/middle class neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
I would say look into the inner-beltway of Prince Georges County, MD. Inner-Beltway is not as affluent as the upper middle class Outer-Beltway of Prince Georges County but I know for a fact that it still has a strong middle class. Maybe a user from the DMV can fill you in on the areas to avoid around there since i'm not 100% sure and I don't want to give misleading information. I know that the inner-beltway fulfills most of your criteria though.
The inner beltway of PG County and the outer beltway both have AA dominated neighborhoods. Inner beltway is older more middle- working class. Outer beltway more middle-upperclass. However, its not segregated, well to do folks be in the hood areas and hood folks be in the well to do areas.
Chicago: Hyde Park (long an integrated haven for prosperous African Americans) South Kenwood (where Pres. Obama lives)
Philaldelphia: Mt. Airy (beautiful homes, prosperous professionals)
NYC: Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill (Brooklyn neighborhoods that I'd call demographic twins to Hyde Park/Kenwood)
NJ: Maplewood, Teaneck, maybe Montclair (a very cool place, but last I knew Montclair was only about 1/3 black and many of those folks are not affluent)
baldwin hills, california
ladera heights, california
view park-windsor hills, california
redan, georgia
mitchellville, maryland
fort washington, maryland
friendly, maryland
southfield, michigan
roselle, new jersey
hillcrest, new york
uniondale, new york
bloomfield, connecticut
quinby, south carolina
forest park, oklahoma
atlanta, georgia
kettering, maryland
woodmore, maryland
Ladera heights LA ( CA)
70% of african americans.The median income for a household in the CDP was $90,233, and the median income for a family was $103,174
Yes, didn't think of that. Oui, c'est ca!
Growing up near Ladera, it was definitely NOT 70% black (or whatever the politically correct term is today). It was about 10 or 20%. But I wouldn't consider it a "real" African-American neighborhood - it's more of an upper-middle class enclave for LA's black professionals, along with Baldwin Hills and View Park. And there are a lot of WHITE professionals in LA who can't afford to live there.
I was going to say some of the African-American communities in the suburbs of Seattle and Portland. In Seattle, it would be the S.E. side of the city. The housing stock looks similar to what you find in other in-town neighborhoods (that are unjustifiably expensive), but the racial make-up is different...I was thinking Madrona, Rainier Beach, etc.
Last edited by robertpolyglot; 03-10-2012 at 04:25 PM..
Mt Airy is not a black neighborhood. It's a famously mixed neighborhood. I grew up around there.
East Mt. Airy is very black indeed... West Mt. Airy is very mixed/mostly white... but a decent amount of blacks as well
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