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Originally Posted by nyanti
The graph with the percentages of blacks with bachelors degrees shows who really is the true black capitol of America. Washington D.C. not only has the richest per capita Black Americans but the most educated, passing San Jose which has less than 70,000 blacks in its metro area and is a niche technical market for blacks. Raleigh and Nashville are pleasant surprises both passing Atlanta in educational attainment this decade. Although Atlanta also gained in percentages of educated blacks it seems like they are receiving a lot more quantity over Quality. I know a lot of people with not even a high school degree who moved to Atlanta and Charlotte and I thought they were crazy but it seems to be the trend. On the other hand Raleigh's not that much of a surprise being that its one of D.C. cousin cities. Nashville is the real surprise gaining over five percentage points in bachelor's degree attainment amongst blacks surpassing D.C. in numerical gains.
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Hmm, I suppose you didn't get the part about that figure being a percentage, not a number. Sure DC, Raleigh, and Nashville saw a larger increase in the number of it's African-American residents that have college degrees
percentage wise than Atlanta. However when you consider that Atlanta gained more Black residents than all three combined, times two, then of course our percentages for that metric will be lower. We still however in that same time period increased the percentage by three percentage points.
So, while the percentage is higher for those cities, Atlanta still has the largest numerical amount of African-Americans with college degrees due to the size of our population. One by one:
In DC, about 29% of African-Americans have a college degree. That translates in to 297,062 people.
In Nashville, about 26% of African-Americans have a college degree. That translates in to 49,887 people.
In Raleigh, about 26% of African-Americans have a college degree. That translates in to 70,182 people.
And for good measure, in San Jose, about 29% of African-Americans have a college degree. That translates in to
16,349 people <---that is not a mistake.
Contrast that with Atlanta, where 24.6% of African-American residents have a college degree. That translates into
414,460 people.
So in order to surpass the number of African-Americans with a college degree in Atlanta you would need to added up all of the African-Americans with a degree in DC, San Jose, Raleigh, and Nashville...only then would you pass Atlanta by a measly 20,000 people.
Hell, there are alone more African-Americans in Atlanta with a college degree than there are black people at all education levels in Nashville (black population 197,876), Raleigh (black population 269,932) and San Jose (black population 45,126...again, not a mistake).
In other words, Atlanta not only has the quantity but the quality as well to back up it's claim as the current undisputed true capital of Black America my friend.
In other news, Atlanta gained approximately half a million new African-American residents in 9 years. And that's
after most of the people who migrated here from New Orleans after Katrina (close to 100,000 people) went back home. Truly amazing.
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PS, I'm not hating on DC, Raleigh, Nashville, or San Jose. African-Americans need to keep this type of growth in education levels up in ALL cities. Congrats to those four for doing so.
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