Has Nashville's black population notably increased in the last decade? (Memphis: elementary school, living)

[0'Farrell]

The South has become a magnet in attracting blacks again. However the areas that are always mentioned are Atlanta, Charlotte, and Miami. Has Nashville picked anything up since the migration?

[Edmund_Burke]

Dunno, but it depends on factors like local industries, family connections, living costs, etc. ATL has long had a rich history of AA success, right behind NO and DC.

[groovamos]

Memphis and Birmingham were such a draw, with Memphis and New Orleans. bookending the agricultural Delta region, and Birmingham with its heavy industry, Nashville kind of got overlooked in the rural migration to the cities. Atlanta, Louisville, Memphis and Birmingham were quite a bit larger than Nashville when I was a kid, and Charlotte a good bit smaller. My mother was from Charlotte, and on my visits there, hanging out with my first cousins I noticed there was a larger AA presence there in the '60's than in Nashville. And of course the same was true in Atlanta, where my father grew up and I was born. And when I was in elementary school Atlanta and Birmingham were the same size, New Orleans was the largest metro in the southeast.

I would think too that since the Nashville metro growth has been essentially in the 'burbs, this has been a less attractive feature for that population to migrate into. So I think that history has kind of put Nashville in a different category when it comes to the OP's question.