I had to pawn my Leftist Decoder Ring when an illegal Mexican took my job, so…
Taylor’s decision to live outside Chicago makes him part of a shift tracked by the 2010 Census that surprised many demographers and urban planners: He is among hundreds of thousands of blacks who moved away from cities with long histories as centers of African-American life, including Chicago, Oakland, Washington, New Orleans and Detroit.
At the other end of the spectrum, in Maine, is the Lewiston-Auburn area, which saw a 476% increase in its black population from 2000 to 2010. Most of the newcomers are refugees from Somalia, says Phil Nadeau, deputy city administrator in Lewiston.
Their arrival “has contributed to reversing the decline of population in the community,” he says, and has made it “culturally a much more interesting place to live.”
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That’s a euphemism for “full of sexually mutilated little girls and teenage drug dealers, welfare bums & terrorists who still aren’t quite sure how the toilets work.”
More highlights:
Cedric Brown, 43, moved from San Francisco to Oakland in 2009, when he got married. He loves being surrounded by “other folks who have a similar cultural heritage and experience,” says Brown, who is black…
Hey, do you get to have that, too, or even state out loud, as he did, that that is your (normal human) preference, too? Of course not.
“Trotter says some Hispanic newcomers are settling in the suburbs instead of moving first to the city, and she believes it would be unfortunate if whites displace blacks and Hispanics in the inner city. “We want to retain diversity within the city core,” she says.
Translation: It would be “unfortunate” if people who aren’t like us moved into the neighborhood. She gets to say that. You don’t.
Finally:
You can have a clean city like Seattle, Austin, Boulder, Portland or Minneapolis (all DWL havens) or you can have Detroit, Milwaukee, Tulsa or Shreveport. It’s that simple.
UPDATE: not really related…
