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It's much more prevalent with hispanics below a certain socioeconomic status moving into lower income predominately black neighborhoods. It's the reason how I think Ladera Heights and other affluent suburbs like it in LA County have maintain a black majority with minimum hispanic presence while everywhere else in LA County that had a long-standing large black presence are 50% Hispanic currently.
From 1970 to the late 1990s the area was 80% Black and about 10% Latino. Now it is majority Latino and that majority is growing. It is a bit surprising given that in the early days of Los Angeles the Black community was restricted to certain neighborhoods in South Central. That was their historical home base as they spread after housing restrictions were lifted.
It will be interesting to see what happens there simply because of that particular history.
My guess it that in about 10 to 20 yrs, South Central LA’s residents will have come full circle. South Central LA was initially a large white working class area. With the arrival of large numbers of African Americans in the 40s, 50s, and 60s for jobs and a more tolerant environment than they’d left in the south (primarily from Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma), South Central emptied of most whites. With the loss of mfg jobs and opportunities and everything that came with that including disinvestment, crime, police harassment, gangs and rebellions in ’65 & ‘92, many African Americans moved out in the ‘70s, ’80 and ‘90s and have since been replaced by Hispanics. But now, with reinvestment and gentrification encroaching on South Central LA, Hispanics are slowly being replaced by whites and others. After all, South Central is centrally located, has great weather, and has good bones (most of the housing stock is single family from the ‘20’s ‘30’s ‘40’s ‘50’s and ‘60’s). This trend is already occurring in Mid Cities, around USC/Exposition Park, West Adams and the Crenshaw corridor.
One factor is that in most of the United States, Hispanics are a growing population group whereas non-Hispanic Whites are stagnant or declining in numbers. When a group is growing, they will tend to expand into additional neighborhoods often in close proximity to existing communities and with similar price points. Neighborhoods being vacated by Blacks often feature affordable housing (by the standards of their respective metro area) that fits the budgets of Hispanic home buyers and renters.
I’m surprised that people find this surprising. It’s not uncommon at all for Mexican Americans to form “sections” within historic black neighborhoods. Particularly west of the misssissippi. And then east of the Mississippi Puerto Ricans have been doing the same. Look at Compton, LA; South Park, Houston; Harlem, NY; and parts of the Chicago Southside
In every city and town in East Texas where there's a predominately Black area there's usually a thriving Mexican community close proximity to the Black community. Plus we tend to go to the same schools from K-12. I grew up in Longview, East Texas and the demographics that flooded the hallways of my school years from elementary to middle schools was usually Black, Mexican and White. White students were generally the minority up until high school. Then it was predominately Black followed by Whites than Hispanics/Mexican. Now I think Hispanic/Mexicans are the majority followed by Black students and White students steadily shrinking at Longview High School.
Not just cost, I think Hispanics genuinely have less aversion to living around black people than whites do.
Or maybe it is the other way around. Maybe the blacks are more tolerant of the Hispanics and the Hispanics have a smaller chance of being mugged or murdered just because of their race than the whites do if they go into a black neighborhood. Or maybe it is just the perception of the same.
However, I suspect that it is mostly because the rent is cheaper and the Hispanics are going to where they can afford the rent,
I think the thing that people haven't mentioned, especially when you are talking about the Northeast is that many of the Hispanics are black or of black African descent themselves. So, there may also be similar perceptions/concerns/realities that they may take into account like other black people do, along with the affordability and other aspects of said neighborhoods.
I think the thing that people haven't mentioned, especially when you are talking about the Northeast is that many of the Hispanics are black or of black African descent themselves. So, there may also be similar perceptions/concerns/realities that they may take into account like other black people do, along with the affordability and other aspects of said neighborhoods.
There’s still quite a bit of tension between Hispanic blacks and non Hispanic blacks.
It's part of ethnic succession anyway. The key is definitely lower living cost and the fact that Hispanics especially more recent migrants/immigrants doesn't factor in things like safety or schools nearly as much as, let say, typical White/Asian families.
Compton is an example. In DMV, inner Prince George's County, long home to lower income African-American population, is seeing a huge influx of Salvadorian (mainly) population. Places like Langley Park or Riverdale and part of Bladensburg are literally El Salvador nowaday.
Similar to the like of Ladera Heights in LA, though, you don't have influx of Hispanics into wealthier majority African-American area in outer (outside of the beltway) PGC - i.e. places like Woodmore or Upper Marlboro are still something like 90% black.
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