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Practically all of the well-to-do Blacks in Maryland are in a few counties in the DC/Bmore CSA. But since Maryland is a small state, you may have a point.
But that's true for all of the US. Maryland, as a whole, still has the highest median income for Blacks, doesn't it?
You specifically mentioned Salisbury as potentially being an area with affluent/well-to-do Blacks. That's not the case and that's what I was pointing out.
You specifically mentioned Salisbury as potentially being an area with affluent/well-to-do Blacks. That's not the case and that's what I was pointing out.
You haven't disproved anything. It was never my point that the eastern shore was heavily concentrated with Black wealth. I simply said it was there and that the DMV is not the only place it can be found.
Hell, your own stats show that Blacks in Wicomico have a higher median income than the national average, so it's clear that there is some affluence in that part of the state. I stand by my point.
You haven't disproved anything. It was never my point that the eastern shore was heavily concentrated with Black wealth. I simply said it was there and that the DMV is not the only place it can be found.
Hell, your own stats show that Blacks in Wicomico have a higher median income than the national average, so it's clear that there is some affluence in that part of the state. I stand by my point.
If your standard of affluence is being (barely) above the national average, then we have different definitions of affluence. The state average would be a much more appropriate standard to use since salaries and COL vary wildly nationally, and the median Black household income in the county is over $20K below the statewide average.
Salisbury is nothing special as far as this topic goes so I'm not sure what you're trying to prove. Simply saying "it is there" is really saying nothing at all statistically speaking, nor is a "nice amount" a quantifiable figure.
Not really. Because most of the Black population is in the DC and Baltimore areas. Of the 1.9 million Blacks, about 1.6 are in these two metros. Very little west of Frederick and it's small east of the two metros.
^This....Hagerstown, select small towns/cities in the Eastern Shore and maybe Cumberland are the only other areas where there is at least some degree of a notable Black population outside of that area.
Hagerstown has a small Black population and you can forget Cumberland. Though pretty, but visiting that would have you believe there aren't any Black people in Maryland at all. Hagerstown is growing tho. Many from DC go out there. It's very cheap.
You do have some of that, but there are Black people in leadership positions and professionals as well. I left some things out of that first thread, but Buffalo, Rochester and Ithaca have Black mayors. Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany have Black women that are school superintendents. Ithaca's school super is Black. Syracuse's police chief is Black. Harriet Tubman's home in Auburn is going to be a National Park Service site and I believe some of her nieces still live there. Neighborhoods like eastern Salt Springs in Syracuse, the 19th Ward south of Brooks Ave in Rochester, some outer areas in NE Buffalo into western Cleveland Hill in Cheektowaga and parts of Albany's Delaware Ave neighborhood have predominately/pluralistically more Black, middle class areas.
Also, the second Black lawyer in the country had his office in Downtown Syracuse in the 1850's(George B. Vachon) and perhaps the first Black mayor of a municipality occurred in the 1860's in the village of Cleveland in Oswego County(Ned Sherman). The inventor of the Golf Tee and the second person to graduate from Harvard's Dental School was born and raised in Oswego(George F. Grant). There are other examples. So, you also have a historical component throughout the state as well.
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