Criteria to be considered "Black Mecca" (state, better, places)
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I'm not saying Houston or Atlanta (don't know about Charlotte) are as urban as DC or NYC. But if you move to those two sunbelt city cores and expecting a "suburban" lifestyle, chances are, you will be disappointed. The fact is, Blacks aren't moving to Houston and Atlanta proper more than they are moving to their suburbs. But the ones that do move to the cores aren't exactly getting an urban lifestyle akin to DC or NYC, but they also aren't getting a suburban lifestyle similar to Woodbridge or Naperville either. It also comes down to which suburban you're talking about when it comes to their cores? Upper Marlboro or Rosslyn?
So, basically streetcar suburbia would be the proper term...?
Maybe back in the day yeah,, This day in time, Nope! The city it's self has almost 200,000 blacks alone and that's just in the city. I wouldn't call it a Black Mecca nor would I call any city that really, but that's just my opinion...,Nashville is more of a Diverse/ integrated city with Whites, Black, Hispanics, Asian, Kurds, Immigrants, etc... I will say it seems to have a high population of educated wealthy Blacks. Maybe that's what the earlier poster was getting at!
Not the terminology. The notion that other Black ethnicities ( Non African Americans) will outgrow African Americans. Where does that notion comes from?
i have to look up the thread... iirc, someone posted a stat a while back about by the 2030 census the number of south-american, central-american, african, caribbean blacks both immigrate at a faster rate and give birth at a faster rate than african-americans whose lineage are from the united states during the slave trade give birth.
I agree with this as being an regular American Black. I don't believe in the Term African American for a regular American born black person who's roots have been here for hundreds of years and are a by product of slavery. We are simply Black Americans.. That's like Whites trying to say they are European Americans, they are as mixed up as we are. Not going fly and not understanding where or why the term came about for an American Black person. It's far too confusing really. Most true African immigrants don't even use the term African American but the country in Africa they are from. IMO the standard white and black Americans are far too mixed up and interconnected due to slave history to be reaching back to our previous ancestors lands to claim an identity.. Even in that in doing DNA testing you will probably as I have find you have connections to several African regions, several European regions, Asia, Native Americans, and etc., which will leave you even more confused than before. We are simply American period, like it or not and related in more ways than you know.. I think us as Americans work too hard to separate our selves, that's the problem
Maybe back in the day yeah,, This day in time, Nope!
Wait a second man...let's be factual about this. Any city undergoing rampant gentrification like Nashville is only getting less Black and more White over time: https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...ods/936368001/
Austin by far is a white city AND metro. Nashville has a healthy black population in its city limits, and the blacks who are being pushed out due to gentrification will only move to the suburbs, as usual.
Austin by far is a white city AND metro. Nashville has a healthy black population in its city limits, and the blacks who are being pushed out due to gentrification will only move to the suburbs, as usual.
Is Nashville proper gaining black population or losing it over the last 8 years since the census? How about Austin proper? That's a very interesting question for all these cities actually? Which cities are gaining black population and which cities are losing it to the suburbs or other metros since 2010?
I know D.C. proper has gained about 14,000 new net black residents since 2010. How about Atlanta proper or NYC?
Wait a second man...let's be factual about this. Any city undergoing rampant gentrification like Nashville is only getting less Black and more White over time: https://www.tennessean.com/story/new...ods/936368001/
Close in area's close to Downtown maybe so but Nashville is a consolidated Metro-Government so most of the blacks are in areas like Antioch, Madison, and further in the burbs etc. If you are in Georgia these areas will give you more of a Decatur to Clarkston feel to some degree just to give you a better understanding but still considered to be Nashville-Davidson.
Austin by far is a white city AND metro. Nashville has a healthy black population in its city limits, and the blacks who are being pushed out due to gentrification will only move to the suburbs, as usual.
Yep Nashville blacks at least the average ones are being pushed further out to the burbs. The only thing that really helps saves Nashville's proper with it's black population though is the Consolidation so areas like Antioch is were they are mainly fleeing to so Davidson County still retains it's black population to a degree. With places like Atlanta city proper though which have been going through Similar is once your out of the city limit your out of the city limit. Areas like Clayton and DeKalb County gets to claim the majority of the black population. Atlanta has been getting whiter as well inner city wise but they are much better with affordable housing which helps retain a bit of that black population.
i have to look up the thread... iirc, someone posted a stat a while back about by the 2030 census the number of south-american, central-american, african, caribbean blacks both immigrate at a faster rate and give birth at a faster rate than african-americans whose lineage are from the united states during the slave trade give birth.
It will be decades, if not centuries, for that to happen. The vast majority of every states black population besides maybe Massachusetts and Connecticut is still African American. In fact, I don’t ever see that happening in our lifetimes.
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