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That's kinda how I feel with this article, it's pretty misleading. Despite the rises of the white and Latino population, Harlem is still a solid black majority neighborhood.
But the first paragraph of the article in which the statistics is mentioned reads:
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By 2008, their share had declined to 4 in 10 residents. Since 2000, central Harlem’s population has grown more than in any other decade since the 1940s, to 126,000 from 109,000, but its black population — about 77,000 in central Harlem and about twice that in greater Harlem — is smaller than at any time since the 1920s.
Thus the 2008 population of central Harlem is 126,000 and its black population is 77,000.
My calculator shows this as a 61% black population and to me that is STILL a majority.
So the premise of blacks losing their majority in Harlem is complete nonsense.
What possible point was the Times writer trying to make?
Many have either died off and or going back down south to live especially the young. I have spoke to many AA who have said NYC is no place for a young black man anymore. I have already said that NYC has to cater to outsiders first, its a business!
Neither is the south....ever heard of Jasper, Tx? if your black in America period you will have to put up with BS.
Way too many pages but I would like to add not all gentrifiers are White Anglo Saxons. There are plenty of professional Blacks, Asains and Latin Americans of various races moving in too.
Neither is the south....ever heard of Jasper, Tx? if your black in America period you will have to put up with BS.
Texas isn't really a place that people think of when they talk about the south [Even though it is located about as south as the US can get].
Usually it means states like Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, or any of the other states in the southeast that have a very high percentage of black residents.
Texas isn't really a place that people think of when they talk about the south [Even though it is located about as south as the US can get].
Usually it means states like Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, or any of the other states in the southeast that have a very high percentage of black residents.
Eastern Texas (where Jasper is located) does have a higher percentage of blacks. It's definitely the south.
I kept seeing you recommend New Orleans, but you meant Houston and Dallas, right? New Orleans does have a nice sized affluent black community, but nowhere near as large as the latter two.
Thus the 2008 population of central Harlem is 126,000 and its black population is 77,000.
My calculator shows this as a 61% black population and to me that is STILL a majority.
So the premise of blacks losing their majority in Harlem is complete nonsense.
What possible point was the Times writer trying to make?
Those are the numbers for Central Harlem only. The article is talking about all of Harlem--i.e., Central Harlem, East Harlem and West Harlem/Hamilton Heights--together. The black population is East Harlem and West Harlem is only maybe 20-25% at most, so the overall total black population is not going to be more than 45% or so.
Yeah but East Harlem has always been associated with being mostly hispanic...
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