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Stuff White People Like: Cities
In New York City, it became obvious a few years back that Manhattan had turned into an island of white people surrounded by boroughs of the not-white. Now, a survey of American cities finds the reverse of white flight is happening from San Francisco to Atlanta to Chicago. Richard Florida warned us of something like this! But it's not the artists taking over the cities, but the white, white-collar classes.
Writes the WSJ: Today, cities are refashioning themselves as trendy centers devoid of suburban ills like strip malls and long commutes. In Atlanta, which has among the longest commute times of any U.S. city, the white population rose by 26,000 between 2000 and 2006, while the black population decreased by 8,900. Overall the white proportion has increased to 35% in 2006 from 31% in 2000.
In other cities, whites are still leaving, but more blacks are moving out. Boston lost about 6,000 black residents between 2000 and 2006, but only about 3,000 whites. In 2006, whites accounted for 50.2% of the city's population, up from 49.5% in 2000. That's the first increase in roughly a century. What the Wall Street Journal neglects to mention is exactly where all the black people are going. Besides, you know, the margins.
The organizing perspective on this shift from one fierce Black woman who isn't planning to leave one of those cities anytime soon:
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/HJAAP/06%20articles/lee06.pdf
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