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Old 05-20-2011, 08:22 PM
 
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This website will tell you everything you want to know with the 2010 census data. I can't take credit for this as it was posted on here by somebody else. It really is a fantastic map though. Check out the racial/ethnic distribution map.

Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census - NYTimes.com.
According to the map, the TC metro counties with the most rapid increases of the African-American population are outside of Ramsey/Hennepin counties. I think Wright County has the fastest growth.
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Old 05-21-2011, 05:31 AM
 
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Historically the black population in MN is lower income, which is why you don't see many Blacks in Edina. That is changing however. If you compare the overall percentage of black in MN to what you find in most suburbs you will see that they are pretty much on track, or slightly higher than state averages. There just are not that many blacks that live in Minnesota as a whole, especially compared to the East coast and the south. It has more to do with historical settlement patterns than anything. Their families are "from" there, they grew up there, they stayed there. It's no different then some white kid from Minneapolis that had family that is from there, they grew up there, they stayed there.
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:08 AM
 
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Didn't Minnesota have a sudden increase in Somalian immigrants in the last decade? Just thinking that might account for the black population increase...
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:53 AM
 
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The Somalian influx came on strong in the 90's during their civil war. Since then, people bring over their families and get into the job market, and become Americans. I work with a half dozen Somalian immigrants at my hotel, though can't think of any living on my block in Minneapolis.

Segregation is a state of mind as well as a concentration of ethnic minorities. It just doesn't seem to be all that important to people I meet here.
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Old 05-21-2011, 10:34 PM
 
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This website will tell you everything you want to know with the 2010 census data. I can't take credit for this as it was posted on here by somebody else. It really is a fantastic map though. Check out the racial/ethnic distribution map.

Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census - NYTimes.com.
Great site. Thank you.

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I don't think the Twin Cities have any neighborhoods that are anywhere near exclusively black. We have neighborhoods in which whites are a minority, but those are still pretty diverse overall.
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The most black Census tract in the area is actually in St. Paul, I believe, at around 70%.
Indeed. There is one Census tract in St. Paul that is 72% black. Minneapolis has more Census tracts than St. Paul that are over 40% black, but Minneapolis doesn't have one Census tract that is over 70% black. The most heavily black Census tract in Minneapolis appears to be 66% black, north Minneapolis just west of I-94 and south of Plymouth Ave.

It is my impression that the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is less segregated than most other major cities in the Midwest. Not only are the "black parts of town" less exclusively black, but the black population is more spread around the metro, including the suburbs. Both Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park are about 25% black, according to 2010 Census data. I believe that would make those two suburbs the "blackest" cities in the metro by percentage.

Cities like Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit, just to name a few, have numerous urban Census tracts that are 90%+ black. Those cities seem to be more segregated than Minneapolis.

Some will say that there is less segregation in Minneapolis-St. Paul because the black population is smaller than in other cities. That is true if you compare it to Chicago, Detroit, or most of the major cities in the South, but it's not true if you compare it to cities like Milwaukee and Kansas City, which have about the same number of black residents as Minneapolis-St. Paul.

According to Census data from 2008, there were 241,248 African-Americans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro area. That compares very closely to the number of African-Americans in the metro areas of Milwaukee, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Columbus. It's true that Minneapolis-St. Paul is much larger than those other metro areas, so the percentage of black residents is smaller. But the total number is about the same.
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Old 05-24-2011, 04:56 AM
 
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Beauty is truly skin deep. God put us all here. I believe strongly that each and every person of every race has value to God and myself. I love people and love seeing all of us get to Heaven....
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Old 05-24-2011, 06:27 AM
 
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Beauty is truly skin deep. God put us all here. I believe strongly that each and every person of every race has value to God and myself. I love people and love seeing all of us get to Heaven....
Amen to that.
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Old 05-24-2011, 10:25 AM
 
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Beauty is truly skin deep. God put us all here. I believe strongly that each and every person of every race has value to God and myself. I love people and love seeing all of us get to Heaven....
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Amen to that.
Did I accidentally wander into the religion subforum?
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Old 05-24-2011, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Beauty is truly skin deep. God put us all here. I believe strongly that each and every person of every race has value to God and myself. I love people and love seeing all of us get to Heaven....
The phrase "beauty is skin deep" generally refers to shallow interpretations of beauty. Is that what you mean?
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Old 05-25-2011, 12:47 AM
 
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There's just simply historical patterns for the way people settle. There's a reason St Louis Park is very Jewish and the NSP/Maplewood/Oakdale/WBL/Eastside corridor is very Catholic. The majority of people tend to live more or less somewhat close to where they grew up and with groups similar to them. And when people do move out, they generally move in clumps with similar demographics. Thus many blacks from the Northside are migrating out to Brooklyn Park and Brooklyn Center. The many Catholic families from the Eastside have largely spread out to Oakdale, North Saint Paul, and White Bear. Almost all my friends growing up live in those places. People who went to Johnson largely now live in White Bear or NSP. People who went to Harding often live in Oakdale and Woodbury. Hill kids like me are spread over all those places. Rarely do eastsiders move further west in the city like I have- this area as largely dominated by Cretin and Central grads as well as non-native St Paulites.
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