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Old 06-30-2021, 01:50 AM
 
Location: Greenville, SC
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It is called Northern migration, “white flight”, redlining and perhaps even the aspect of not allowing to annex are some reasons behind it. However, black people have been in the area of what is now the city before there was an official, incorporated city of Buffalo and dare I say before many white ethnic groups even heard of the city. https://www.hilbert.edu/social-justi...s/joseph-hodge

https://buffaloah.com/h/fagant/Settlers1790.html (second name)

Also, keep in mind that NY State is the state with the highest percentage outside of the traditional/old South(even higher than some Southern states) and is 3rd in total black state population(was first from about 1950/1960 until about 2015 or so in that regard).

Even looking at Buffalo, it was 13.3% in 1960, 20.4% in 1970, with some figures from 1980-2010: https://s4.ad.brown.edu/projects/div...cityid=3611000

So, it is a city that for a long time had/has(depending on who you include) around/over 100,000 black residents. In the Northeast, only NYC, Philadelphia, Boston and Newark are the only other cities that can claim that(Baltimore and DC if you include MD in the Northeast).

LOL

The state stopped "annexation" over 100 years ago, but you're just now finding out???

Goes to show how segregated Northern urban areas are vs. Southern, in the last 30 years or so.

Come on, now...

 
Old 06-30-2021, 06:52 AM
 
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Buffalo actually has a bad reputation for racism (like a lot of upstate cities). Ask Grant Fuhr when he lived there....
 
Old 06-30-2021, 08:09 AM
 
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Buffalo actually has a bad reputation for racism (like a lot of upstate cities). Ask Grant Fuhr when he lived there....
That isn’t just a Buffalo or Upstate NY thing.
 
Old 06-30-2021, 09:15 AM
 
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Buffalo actually has a bad reputation for racism (like a lot of upstate cities). Ask Grant Fuhr when he lived there....
What is really quite amusing is there is so much racism in left controled cities, and the citizens eat up all the destructive, racists policies, and then violently react when their lives suck.

The media is just as bad.

The biggest racists I see, are those calling others racist
 
Old 06-30-2021, 10:06 AM
 
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What is really quite amusing is there is so much racism in left controled cities, and the citizens eat up all the destructive, racists policies, and then violently react when their lives suck.

The media is just as bad.

The biggest racists I see, are those calling others racist
Racism doesn’t have anything to do with being “left” or “right”, which is so overemphasized.
 
Old 07-01-2021, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Buffalo, NY
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One of the criticisms of the area was the dearth of Mexican restaurants compared to other cities - welp, that is changing quickly:

Another new Mexican restaurant is coming to Depew — that's 16 since last fall, for those keeping count

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The restaurant joins a growing taco trail with 15 others in the works or newly opened over the past year, plus at least 20 established Mexican restaurants locally. Some are taco and beer joints, others quick-service spots, and others tout a more family friendly vibe.
I also noticed that my local Tops has increased their stock of Mexican and Tex-Mex style products, just in the past year or so, as I am seeing items not available until recently.
 
Old 07-01-2021, 09:55 AM
 
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Racism doesn’t have anything to do with being “left” or “right”, which is so overemphasized.
Go ahead and keep "believing" that. Far too much info to think anything but that
 
Old 07-01-2021, 10:33 AM
 
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One of the criticisms of the area was the dearth of Mexican restaurants compared to other cities - welp, that is changing quickly:

Another new Mexican restaurant is coming to Depew — that's 16 since last fall, for those keeping count



I also noticed that my local Tops has increased their stock of Mexican and Tex-Mex style products, just in the past year or so, as I am seeing items not available until recently.
Has there been an increase in the local Mexican population that has coincided with the increase in Mexican restaurants or is this strictly a culinary based increase?
 
Old 07-01-2021, 10:37 AM
 
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Go ahead and keep "believing" that. Far too much info to think anything but that
Maybe for people stuck on the “left/right” dichotomy, but most people don’t revolve their lives around that.
 
Old 07-01-2021, 10:59 AM
 
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Maybe for people stuck on the “left/right” dichotomy, but most people don’t revolve their lives around that.
I understand completely
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