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I read it like blacks could not be professionals or it is odd for them to be professionals. Maybe it was just me because English is my second language.
This is America the country where we were oppressed for hundreds of years so we, as a demographic group, are far less successful. Think Native Americans, Aborigines, and every minority in a former European colony.
... I was going to add Charleston since many of the professionals in the city looked very white but I only spent a day there so I’ll stick with Miami!
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You have a point with Charleston; Columbia is where the largest concentration of Black professionals can be found in SC.
This does not surprise me one bit. Now it is somewhat confirmed.
I have a friend who travels all over the country .I am trying to get him to post here because he has been everywhere and has a lot of insight. Anyway he has discussed this subject with me and he thinks the least professional blacks are in his hometown of St Louis..maybe he's biased because he's from there but he strongly believes this. His runner up is Milwaukee...so I found it interesting those were the first two cities mentioned on this thread.
He has never read C-D yet for most professional blacks he is in agreement with the consensus here that it's Washington DC. He is amazed how different blacks are in the DMV compared to St Louis...he said they are much better educated, articulate etc. in the DC area.
I have a friend who travels all over the country .I am trying to get him to post here because he has been everywhere and has a lot of insight. Anyway he has discussed this subject with me and he thinks the least professional blacks are in his hometown of St Louis..maybe he's biased because he's from there but he strongly believes this. His runner up is Milwaukee...so I found it interesting those were the first two cities mentioned on this thread.
He has never read C-D yet for most professional blacks he is in agreement with the consensus here that it's Washington DC. He is amazed how different blacks are in the DMV compared to St Louis...he said they are much better educated, articulate etc. in the DC area.
I read, somewhere (wish I could find it), that the gap between Milwaukee's white population and black population education level, is the most in any city. Of course, there are exceptions (like the neighbors I had, where husband and wife were both MDs, and black).
This isn’t entirely wrong. Pitraburgh’s Black professional community seems to be older, insular and cliquish. It tends to center around membership in organizations, whether that be a church or BGLO. Black middle class also tends to cluster in undesirable eastern suburbs. These areas offer very little that would appeal to a transplant. In the last couple years, I have noticed real growth in the blipster segment.
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I read, somewhere (wish I could find it), that the gap between Milwaukee's white population and black population education level, is the most in any city. Of course, there are exceptions (like the neighbors I had, where husband and wife were both MDs, and black).
It seems like Brown Deer, Glendale and maybe parts of some of the other northern suburbs, along with some outer city neighborhoods on the North Side seem to be the best bet in the area.
I think Boston. Not sure what makes it different from Philadelphia or NYC in this regard, but it severely underperforms given the size of its black population.
This isn’t entirely wrong. Pitraburgh’s Black professional community seems to be older, insular and cliquish. It tends to center around membership in organizations, whether that be a church or BGLO. Black middle class also tends to cluster in undesirable eastern suburbs. These areas offer very little that would appeal to a transplant. In the last couple years, I have noticed real growth in the blipster segment.
The bolded part is interesting, because Dallas, Texas is the same way. You even see it all the time on City-Data, where potential Black transplants ask what areas of Dallas are good for professional Blacks. and they get steered toward the Southern part of the metro, which has communities like DeSoto, Cedar Hill, and Lancaster that are Black middle class areas ON PAPER, but when most Black transplants go to DFW and see how neglected, isolated, segregated, amenity lacking, and full of poor schools those so called middle class Black areas are, they move to the Northern burbs with all the other middle class transplants of different races and ethnicities, or at least to nicer, more convenient suburbs and areas between Dallas and Fort Worth. That causes a lot separation, division, and the tension between the native so called middle class Blacks who live in the Southern, mostly Black part of the metro and the middle class Black transplants who live mostly up north with all the other transplants of different races and ethnicities where all the jobs, amenities, entertainment, good schools, etc are. This is why Dallas' Black community is surprising weak and divided for a city and metro so large with such a sizeable number of Black residents. It's sad.
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