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10% of 1.5 million would be 150,000. The 90,000 @ 10% assumes a starting population of 900,000. The Detroit metro alone had more than 900,000 blacks in 2010. Thus, either the percentage is wrong and or the total increase is wrong. My guess is that the percentage is wrong....if not both.
After double checking I made in error on the raw numbers. It's 143,000+ but still around 10.22% or so. The Black pop in Michigan in 2010 was around 1.3 million+ and grew to 1.5 million+. Therefore a 10.2% growth.
I don’t think it will happen. But Texas black population could grow by 1 million in 10 years is something I didn’t think could ever happen. It will come very close. Not bad for a state that supposedly doesn’t have that much black culture according to some on here.
Texas has plenty of black culture, no one has ever suggested anything so absurd. I think must of the posts that have been critical of black culture in Texas were ones that were comparing Dallas relative to other cities that have a larger influence of black American culture (including Houston which is in Texas). It would be absurd to say that
I admit, I'm surprised that California's black population has grown at all. And to such a substantial degree at that. Are these numbers counting mixed race people?
In Illinois, blacks are migrating from the Chicago proper to suburbs, mainly in the southland and west suburban Cook County. In Cook County southland, most municipalities east of I-57 are over 50% black; and in Thornton Township, Cook's largest township of 167k, is 70% black. In the west suburbs, most blacks live in Proviso Township which is about 34% black out of 150k people. The city proper still has more blacks than Cook County suburbs, but I think that will be reduced down to 50/50 split, if not slightly favoring the suburbs, in the next 15-20 years.
Also, I think many overlook that there is a large and long-established black population in the St. Louis' metro-east area on the Illinois side, as well as the area known as Little Egypt, though I believe many of these towns are poor.
After double checking I made in error on the raw numbers. It's 143,000+ but still around 10.22% or so. The Black pop in Michigan in 2010 was around 1.3 million+ and grew to 1.5 million+. Therefore a 10.2% growth.
That sounds more reasonable, however a growth from 1.3 to 1.5 million would be .2 million or 200,000, not 143,000. 143,000 assumes, mathematically, that the 2010 population was 1.4 million...I know I am splitting hairs here but I am really interested in how the black population of Michigan is growing. I know the black population declined from 2000 to 2010. It was just short of 1.5 million in 2000. I would be shocked if the black population of the state made a dramatic turnaround as the data suggests. However, natural increase might explain that growth.
That said, I really appreciate the leg work you have done with your effort. I am a junky for information like this...but too lazy to do the digging.
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That sounds more reasonable, however a growth from 1.3 to 1.5 million would be .2 million or 200,000, not 143,000. 143,000 assumes, mathematically, that the 2010 population was 1.4 million...I know I am splitting hairs here but I am really interested in how the black population of Michigan is growing. I know the black population declined from 2000 to 2010. It was just short of 1.5 million in 2000. I would be shocked if the black population of the state made a dramatic turnaround as the data suggests. However, natural increase might explain that growth.
That said, I really appreciate the leg work you have done with your effort. I am a junky for information like this...but too lazy to do the digging.
I added the (+) for the additional numbers that I left out. Ex: 1,342,651,-> 1.3 Million+. Therefore it's not 200K on the spot, it's 143K+.
Thanks. I'm just highly curious on different themes of my Black culture.
Texas has plenty of black culture, no one has ever suggested anything so absurd. I think must of the posts that have been critical of black culture in Texas were ones that were comparing Dallas relative to other cities that have a larger influence of black American culture (including Houston which is in Texas). It would be absurd to say that
It’s been said about the state as a whole on the forum and throughout the internet over the last few years. Not necessarily on this thread.
I'm not too familiar with South Jersey but I do know that people leaving Philadelphia generally prefer the Pennsylvania suburbs.
Pennsylvania actually has robust black population growth compared to its overall population growth. In fact, whatever population growth has occurred in Pennsylvania since 2000 has been entirely non-white, because it's one of a small handful of states with a decreasing white population.
Here are two charts limited to the states with at least 8,000,000 population:
Numeric growth in states with at least 8,000,000 population (2010-2017)
+874,438 - Texas
+809,370 - New York
+806,503 - Florida
+764,668 - California
+518,500 - Georgia
+365,429 - North Carolina
+311,693 - Pennsylvania
+260,820 - Ohio
+240,663 - Virginia
+144,382 - New Jersey
+133,686 - Illinois
+90,195 - Michigan
Percent growth in states with at least 8,000,000 population (2010-2017)
+34.0% - California
+29.4% - Texas
+26.9% - Florida
+26.8% - New York
+22.6% - Pennsylvania
+18.4% - Ohio
+17.8% - North Carolina
+17.4% - Georgia
+15.3% - Virginia
+10.9% - Michigan
+10.9% - New Jersey
+7.2% - Illinois
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