Brooklyn Center now half minority (Minneapolis, Brooklyn Park: crime, to live in, zip codes)

[City Data Guy]

Originally Posted by pirate_lafitte

What about everywhere else in the Hennepin and Ramsey County areas?

I'm sure there are middle-class black families all over the Twin Cities. It's not like every other black American is dirt poor.

[west336]

I wonder what Minneapolis and St. Paul are. I've heard MPLS was around the 50/50 mark but then the latest data I saw like like 70/30 white?? Guess we'll just have to wait for the Census results. Either way, this state is SLOWLY but surely catching some ground on the rest of the country, but IMO, way too slow!

[west336]

Originally Posted by City Data Guy

I'm sure there are middle-class black families all over the Twin Cities. It's not like every other black American is dirt poor.

I want to say a study showed that Minneapolis was the worst in terms of income disparity between blacks and whites....DC was the best?

[uptown_urbanist]

I noticed a big difference working in DC versus working in Minneapolis. In DC both my husband and I worked for black bosses (my husband was actually one of just a few, and I think at one point the only, white guy at his office), and while both the city and suburbs were fairly heavily segregated, there was definitely a much larger and visible (with very deep historical roots, too) black middle class. (I'd suspect the DC study was probably looking at metro area, not just city of DC, though?) I know plenty of middle class black people in the Twin Cities, too, but the area as a whole is still pretty white. And in recent years many black residents are from Africa), which sort of makes the term "African American" (used to mean people who have ancestors from Africa but whose family arrived in this country generations ago via the slave trade) a bit more complicated. I'm assuming that a large number of relatively recently arrived immigrants who came from war-torn regions probably skew the results a bit when comparing the numbers against cities where the black population is mostly from the United States. I'd be curious to know what people who know the data in and out have to say about it, not to mention what the final tally will be when the 2010 census results come out.

[City Data Guy]

Originally Posted by west336

I wonder what Minneapolis and St. Paul are. I've heard MPLS was around the 50/50 mark but then the latest data I saw like like 70/30 white?? Guess we'll just have to wait for the Census results. Either way, this state is SLOWLY but surely catching some ground on the rest of the country, but IMO, way too slow!

Actually, the white population in Minneapolis is increasing. Someone posted a link to an article on one of the previous pages. According to the 2000 Census, non-Hispanic whites made up 62.5% of Minneapolis's population (Source); the 2006-2008 estimates put the percentage of non-Hispanic whites at 64.2% of Minneapolis's population (Source). The white population (both non-Hispanic and Hispanic) is now over 70% of Minneapolis's population.

[west336]

That's exactly what I saw and I'm a little puzzled by those numbers. I don't see it myself, personally, but that means nothing. However, like I said I've also heard something closer to 50/50.

[City Data Guy]

Originally Posted by west336

That's exactly what I saw and I'm a little puzzled by those numbers. I don't see it myself, personally, but that means nothing. However, like I said I've also heard something closer to 50/50.

Neither do I. When I go to Minneapolis or St. Paul, it seems as if Caucasians are in the minority everywhere. Where did you hear that the white-nonwhite ratio was 50/50?

[west336]

On the radio....like it was some big milestone....so that source pretty much means nothing.

[ckhthankgod]

Could this be due to some form of gentrification going on in Minneapolis? I noticed that the suburbs in the Twin Cities are getting more diverse in general too.

Also, I agree with uptown_urbanist in terms of the recent African immigrants are probably skewing the numbers, as they are arriving with very little. I believe the Twin Cities is an area where African immigrants make up a relatively large percentage of the Black community.

[City Data Guy]

Originally Posted by west336

On the radio....like it was some big milestone....so that source pretty much means nothing.

Wow...I'm not surprised. I really don't see why a white majority area is so bad.