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Old 04-28-2012, 04:52 PM
 
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What was the % historically?

 
Old 04-28-2012, 05:43 PM
 
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Nashville, TN is 28% black, and its one of the whitest cities in the South. Its almost sad how fast the black population has left Oakland.


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Old 04-28-2012, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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What was the % historically?
I think around 10 years ago it was more like 34% or so.
 
Old 04-28-2012, 11:57 PM
 
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I think around 10 years ago it was more like 34% or so.
It was over 40 at one point.
 
Old 04-29-2012, 11:14 AM
 
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So did black folk really leave or did perhaps the birth rate of existing residents drop (due to birth control and Roe v. Wade)at the same time other groups arrived? I don't recall much of a Hispanic presence in the late 70s when I was in school around there. Seemed it was pretty much all whites in the hills and blacks on the flats back then. The only exodus I'm aware of would be the white working class from the flats sometime before that.
 
Old 04-29-2012, 12:39 PM
 
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So did black folk really leave or did perhaps the birth rate of existing residents drop (due to birth control and Roe v. Wade)at the same time other groups arrived? I don't recall much of a Hispanic presence in the late 70s when I was in school around there. Seemed it was pretty much all whites in the hills and blacks on the flats back then. The only exodus I'm aware of would be the white working class from the flats sometime before that.
The SE hills (Sequoyah, Chabot Park, Golf Links, etc.) have been predominantly black since before the 70's.






The white working class exodus occurred when Oakland became integrated in the 50's. Everything east of Lake Merritt used to be nearly 100% white at one point in time.

Although latinos have staked a very large claim in East Oakland, it's only recently that there's starting to be a latino presence in West Oakland (mostly in Ghosttown and South Prescott).
 
Old 04-29-2012, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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So did black folk really leave or did perhaps the birth rate of existing residents drop (due to birth control and Roe v. Wade)at the same time other groups arrived? I don't recall much of a Hispanic presence in the late 70s when I was in school around there. Seemed it was pretty much all whites in the hills and blacks on the flats back then. The only exodus I'm aware of would be the white working class from the flats sometime before that.
I think a lot of people left, and cashed out. They moved further out for bigger space. I don't think birth control/Roe vs Wade had a huge impact on things. That is probably pretty similar across all ethnic groups. Birth rates have been going down for native born americans for the past 30-40 years. (Immigrants are having more kids though).

Didn't the number of Latinos in CA really start to increase in the 80s and 90s?
 
Old 04-29-2012, 07:02 PM
 
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It was over 40 at one point.
In 1980, it was 48% - the highest ever. I believe in 1990 it was 42%, in 2000 it was 35%. Then in 2010, 28%.
 
Old 04-29-2012, 07:59 PM
 
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In 1980, it was 48% - the highest ever. I believe in 1990 it was 42%, in 2000 it was 35%. Then in 2010, 28%.

The trend points out the obvious... the current black population has little to do with gentrification. In the 90's in particular there were a ton of black Oaklanders moving to Atlanta and other parts of the South (typically where their family was).
 
Old 04-30-2012, 08:04 PM
 
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That nearly equal numbers of the various groups in Oakland seems like a good thing, but generally speaking in California Asians replace whites in some middle to upper middle class areas (Cupertino is a good example) and Latinos replace blacks in lower income ares (South LA/Compton). I have a feeling that even though the white population is stable in Oakland much of the decrease in blacks is replacement by Latinos. There has been a definite white/black "flight" in most urban areas of this state the past 20 years. Sacramento is a rare exception.

Please don't take this as a good/bad judgment on the trend. Its just an statistical observation.
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