The Brookings Institution analyzed the 2000 – 2008 Census data and found that while educated whites are now relocating to the cities “minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older population” have relocated to the burbs. According to the findings:
The analysis being released Sunday provides the freshest detail on the nation’s growing race and age divide, which is now feeding tensions in Arizona over its new immigration law. Ten states, led by Arizona, surpass the nation in a “cultural generation gap” in which the senior populations are disproportionately white and children are mostly minority.
Suburbs still tilt white. But, for the first time, a majority of all racial and ethnic groups in large metro areas live outside the city. Suburban Asians and Hispanics already had topped 50 percent in 2000, and blacks joined them by 2008, rising from 43 percent in those eight years. The suburbs now have the largest poor population in the country. They are home to the vast majority of baby boomers age 55 to 64, a fast-growing group that will strain social services..
Researchers also blamed the relocation of many Louisiana residents after Hurricane Katrina for the shift.
What just happened here?
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Yep! That’s the plan, they are doing that here in Baltimore…The whites are moving back in town while the government is pushing Section 8 in the county/suburbs…
so that they can be closer to whats goin on, while minorities are going back to the sticks. though…if u smart u make the best of it!
farm, raise civil kids, live in peace!
let them go be with all the savages in the city!
“Researchers also blamed the relocation of many Louisiana residents after Hurricane Katrina for the shift.”
“Blamed” the LA residents? Hummmm…..why the word blame? Why not just part of the reason is the relocation of LA residents? I live in the suburbs and my neighborhood is mixed with a lot of African-Americans and it’s a wonderful neighborhood. Just b/c we live there doesn’t make it the “projects”. Matter of fact it’s an upper-middle class neighborhood. Everyone else can have the inner city – I’d rather live in the burbs any day!
It’s the extremely high crime rate, and overly negative repuatation that the lower class black Louisiana residents already had way before Kartina even struck that has some people looking down on them.
This has been happening in NYC for the last 15 years or so. It started in Harlem with the astronomical amounts of rent, and the 200-500% property value increases…then it started to spread to downtown Brooklyn and the parts of Queens that are closest to Manhattan. Meanwhile the poor, middle class and less educated people can’t afford these neighborhoods anymore and are being forced further and further away from Manhattan.
Agreed with most of what you said. The average rent in NYC right now is 2,000. You can try to get something for 1000 but you will be in either a bad nieghbohood or far out at the edges of the city.
The poor and middle class will defianatly have a hard time paying rent and taxes on homes at increasing rates… I wonder how long this increase in price for areas and buildings most of which are older than 70 years old. The biggest reason why Williamsburg got so popular was because Manhatten rents were just too high. Now you can move into a apartment that is litterally 50 feet from the elevated J train and pay… get this… 1500 a month and up. Remember back in the day when those apartments near elevated tracks would go for 300+???
BIG DISAGREEMENT wit the less educated part of your statement. You can get education from nay places, but people seem to choose to only want it from the school system. We have the internet AND the library system so in the end if you know you are less educated, you dropped out of school, and so forth, then maybe you should take it upon yourself to get that education. if you can’t offord school, go to the FREE library system.
IF YOU WANT EDUCATION, GO AND GET IT. NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES, GO GET IT. You do not have to go to expensive schools to get it AND you don’t have to learn what you want to learn withing a specific time frame.
city over burbs any day well when i get older and be a grown men my opinion on that my change
Grand Tranio watch it and understand.