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What is the best city for Caribbean & Sub Saharan African people?
When I say Caribbean people, I mean Spanish Caribbean (PR, DR, Cuba, Panama), English Caribbean (Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize), French Caribbean (Haiti).
These groups heavily concentrate in Florida and the Northeast (especially NY). Outside Florida & the Northeast, the Atlanta and DC metro areas have some of the largest numbers of these groups in the country. Both Atlanta & DC are known to be financial meccas for Black Americans. In fact, PG County in the Maryland portion of the DC area has some of the wealthiest predominately black communities in the country. But what about Jamaican and Haitian immigrants, the vast majority are black, or Puerto Rican and Dominican im/migrants most of whom are mixed mulatto/triracial.
Are these cities also considered meccas for black/mulatto hispanic immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, & Africa? Or just African Americans?
Also which is the better city for Caribbean Hispanics, West Indians, & Africans?
Atlanta is most widely known as a city for Black Americans versus Black immigrants from varying parts of Latin America, South America and the Caribbean. DC has an extensive and numerous variety of Black immigrants from West Africa and North Africa along with Jamaican and other East Caribbean nationalities, plus Central/South America including Brazilians and Panamanians.
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DC area. There are already Caribbean immigrants here that are well integrated with the greater African American community.
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Atlanta is most widely known as a city for Black Americans versus Black immigrants from varying parts of Latin America, South America and the Caribbean. DC has an extensive and numerous variety of Black immigrants from West Africa and North Africa along with Jamaican and other East Caribbean nationalities, plus Central/South America including Brazilians and Panamanians.
Both of you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Atlanta's Black population is quite diverse and has large Caribbean, Latin, and native African populations. Just because you watch Love and Hip Hop it doesn't mean you "know" Atlanta.
With that said, it would be even in my eyes OP. Both are good for all of the above groups.
Both of you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Atlanta's Black population is quite diverse and has large Caribbean, Latin, and native African populations. Just because you watch Love and Hip Hop it doesn't mean you "know" Atlanta.
I think you should probably retract the claws on this one; neither one said anything bad about Atlanta here but clearly they are just more familiar with DC.
That said, here is some useful info on the subject:
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I think you should probably retract the claws on this one; neither one said anything bad about Atlanta here but clearly they are just more familiar with DC.
That said, here is some useful info on the subject:
I'll keep my claws out. It's quite frustrating when people cast this narrative that Atlanta's Black population is one dimensional and not diverse.
Except nobody said that.
908Boi didn't even mention Atlanta so I'm not even sure why you even quoted him. Kyle19125 said that Atlanta is mainly known as a city for Black Americans as opposed to being a hotspot for Black immigrants, and that's largely true. However, that doesn't mean that Atlanta doesn't get any Black immigration because that's not the case.
Honestly, outside of NYC, Boston, and Miami, I'd be hard pressed to consider any metro area's Black population as truly diverse. According to the 2013 stats as shown in the first link I posted, Atlanta's foreign-born Black population is 8% and DC's is 15%. That's not anymore "diverse" than a metro area with an overall 92% White/8% Black or 85% White/15% Black population IMO. Obviously there will be areas in both metros (mainly the core) where immigrants tend to cluster and will be more diverse, but overall? That's a different story.
Both would be good. Although D.C seems to have a wider variety of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants.
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