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Old 01-14-2014, 06:21 AM
 
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Yes, my mother is from Barbados.

Believe it or not, Atlanta has the third largest West Indian population in the U.S. Here are the stats for MSAs:

Atlanta - 104,834
Boston - 98,182
Philly - 61,605
DC - 63,329

Atlanta is known as a "black" mecca, but the diversity within that population is often ignored. Here are the stats for Africans:

Atlanta - 150,601
Boston - 82,175
Philly - 67,177
DC - 210,295
Wow! I am surprised about the stats on Africans. Do you know where I can get a breakdown of where they are located and the type of Africans living in these states?
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Old 01-14-2014, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Sweet Home...CHICAGO
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Wow! I am surprised about the stats on Africans. Do you know where I can get a breakdown of where they are located and the type of Africans living in these states?
A lot of Africans in the metro live in Stone Mountain (a lot of East Africans there and also Jamaicans), Lithonia, Conyers and Covington. East Africans must have had a strong presence in Va-Hi/Poncey-Highlands at some point because the school at the corner of Ponce and Briarcliff used to be an East African Orthodox Christian church.
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Old 01-14-2014, 07:47 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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Wow! I am surprised about the stats on Africans. Do you know where I can get a breakdown of where they are located and the type of Africans living in these states?
Cape Verdean - 619
Ethiopian - 10,973
Ghanaian - 4,349
Kenyan - 28,818
Liberian - 2,425
Nigerian - 18,627
Senegalese -620
Sierra Leonean -665
Somalian - 3,182
South African - 2,674
Sudanese - 981
Ugandan - 130
Zimbawean - 137
African - 95,282
Other - 7,119

I'm not exactly sure why Atlanta is such a popular destination for Africans. I think a part of it is that places that attract large numbers of African Americans also attract other blacks from the African diaspora (e.g., Houston and Dallas). Houston is known for having a large African population, and a large Nigerian population in particular, but Atlanta's African population is nearly double Houston's today.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Formerly NYC by week; ATL by weekend...now Rio bi annually and ATL bi annually
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I'll need to do more data mining to offer more detail. But here's a rough outline.

Info Center Resources | atlantaregional.com

Between 2000 and 2009, 297,609 people moved from another Georgia county into the Atlanta 20-County area (defined in the link above).

During that period, the top 10 largest sources of out-of-state domestic net migration were New York (60,247), Florida (55,503), California (25,769), New Jersey (22,651), Michigan (15,848), Illinois (14,462), Louisiana (13,499), Ohio (11,224), Massachusetts (8,808) and Alabama (8,456) for a total of 339,472 migrants.

That's 27.01% for the Northeast, 22.81% for the Southeast, 7.97% for the Midwest and 7.59% for the West.

Again, this picture is not complete because I don't have complete data on total domestic migration (yet). It's just a snapshot. If someone else already has it, please share. I want to try to narrow the numbers down to the MSA specifically.
Great Post. I keep telling people (jokingly) that I used to work with half of Long Island back in 2005...lol.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:26 AM
 
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Cape Verdean - 619
Ethiopian - 10,973
Ghanaian - 4,349
Kenyan - 28,818
Liberian - 2,425
Nigerian - 18,627
Senegalese -620
Sierra Leonean -665
Somalian - 3,182
South African - 2,674
Sudanese - 981
Ugandan - 130
Zimbawean - 137
African - 95,282
Other - 7,119

I'm not exactly sure why Atlanta is such a popular destination for Africans. I think a part of it is that places that attract large numbers of African Americans also attract other blacks from the African diaspora (e.g., Houston and Dallas). Houston is known for having a large African population, and a large Nigerian population in particular, but Atlanta's African population is nearly double Houston's today.
I thought Houston was Nigerian's hot spot. D.C numbers are staggering. I am definitely going to check out Philly and D.C; it is just a short train ride away. Boston does not make sense to me. Would you happen to have any info on where they live in Philly and D.C? Again, thanks for the info.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Sweet Home...CHICAGO
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I thought Houston was Nigerian's hot spot. D.C numbers are staggering. I am definitely going to check out Philly and D.C; it is just a short train ride away. Boston does not make sense to me. Would you happen to have any info on where they live in Philly and D.C? Again, thanks for the info.

I know some Trinidadians from Boston who moved here. From what they've told me, there really are lots of Trinidadians there.
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Old 01-14-2014, 08:47 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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I thought Houston was Nigerian's hot spot.
There are more Nigerians in Houston albeit not by much.

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D.C numbers are staggering.
They are. But it looks like Atlanta's numbers grew more quickly. That goes for West Indians too. I remember a time when Atlanta Carnival was really small. Each year, it kept getting better, and bigger and better. And now I see why.

Atlanta Carnival 2013 Coverage :: TriniJungleJuice.com on the inside

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Boston does not make sense to me.
People keep saying that, but it makes complete sense in light of America's immigration and industrialization history. West Indians came to Boston for the same reason the Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and Jews did. That's where the jobs were. They just didn't migrate in the same numbers that they did to New York (but no group really does). After an immigration pattern has been established, and a community has been built, immigrants continue to come to the area rather than build a community from scratch in another city that doesn't have the same cultural infrastucture.

This is the reason why blacks continue to migrate to places like Atlanta and the Research Triangle. These places didn't become good cities for blacks in 1980. They already had a black entrepreneurial class as well as black colleges and institutions dating back decades. So a black population that was already relatively large to begin with just became larger and larger with continued migration. Boston and New York are the same way with West Indians.

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Would you happen to have any info on where they live in Philly and D.C? Again, thanks for the info.
In Philly, the majority of West Indians are scattered around the area. There's still a decent concentration in West Philly (mostly Jamaicans). Same thing with Africans, but they seem to be more concentrated in Southwest Philly. In the DC area, West Indians and Africans are scattered about in P.G. County and the lower east part of Montgomery County (Silver Spring area).

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Old 01-14-2014, 09:52 AM
 
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Cape Verdean - 619
Ethiopian - 10,973
Ghanaian - 4,349
Kenyan - 28,818
Liberian - 2,425
Nigerian - 18,627
Senegalese -620
Sierra Leonean -665
Somalian - 3,182
South African - 2,674
Sudanese - 981
Ugandan - 130
Zimbawean - 137
African - 95,282
Other - 7,119
Great stats, BajanYankee, thank you!

Is the ARC also the source for this data?
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Old 01-14-2014, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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Great stats, BajanYankee, thank you!

Is the ARC also the source for this data?
American Factfinder
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Old 01-14-2014, 10:01 AM
 
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Cape Verdean - 619
Ethiopian - 10,973
Ghanaian - 4,349
Kenyan - 28,818
Liberian - 2,425
Nigerian - 18,627
Senegalese -620
Sierra Leonean -665
Somalian - 3,182
South African - 2,674
Sudanese - 981
Ugandan - 130
Zimbawean - 137
African - 95,282
Other - 7,119

I'm not exactly sure why Atlanta is such a popular destination for Africans. I think a part of it is that places that attract large numbers of African Americans also attract other blacks from the African diaspora (e.g., Houston and Dallas). Houston is known for having a large African population, and a large Nigerian population in particular, but Atlanta's African population is nearly double Houston's today.
This is surprising to me also.

What is the "African" designation in this list?
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