https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/seattles-vanishing-black-community/ Looks like gentrification. Seattle is becoming a trendy city, and just like in many other big cities on the West Coast (including Oakland and Los Angeles) African Americans are being priced out. Looks like there's not much discussion taking place about this. Judging from the article, the Black community in this area was thriving during the era under segregation. Ironically, desegregation opened up the Black neighborhoods and let the property prices start rising, to the point it started pushing them out and decimating their communities.
Well, in general, buying up homes and pricing out the poor is a good way to make money. The Black people may miss the olden days when they had black neighbors. But that is almost racist but, also, they are a small part of the population so in a mixed neighborhood they may be alone.
It happens. I read an article one time about how that had happened on Hilton Head, Island, SC. Even the blacks who were not swindled out of their land could no longer afford to live there simply because the jacked up property values made it too difficult to pay taxes.
Same thing is going on in Atlanta. In 1990 Atlanta was almost 70% black, today blacks make up 51%. Clayton County just to the south of Atlanta in 1990 was only 35% black, today it is over 90%. Whites have moved out of Clayton County headed further south. Blacks from Atlanta have moved into Clayton County.
Washington D.C. - 70% African American to 45% in just 20 years Washington, D.C. flipped from 70% African American to 45% in just twenty years, as housing prices went up and gentrification took place. They're basically being pushed out of all the desirable big cities, possibly being consigned to less desirable more obscure medium-sized cities in the South and Midwest.
Blacks everywhere are moving. Where are they going? It's no secret that Chicago and Cook County have been losing thousands of Blacks in recent years, but a Crusader analysis of 20 years of U.S. Census data shows Blacks have been leaving predominantly Black suburbs, too. As Blacks leave Chicago, others are ironically flocking to Houston as part of a population explosion that may eventually help the city overtake Chicago as the nation’s third largest by 2024. The situation is the opposite in Chicago and Cook County, where Black flight is well underway. How bad is the problem? Since 2010, 125,235 Blacks have moved from Chicago. In recent years, Chicago has had the highest percentage of Blacks moving out than any city in the Midwest, census data show. On a national level, New Orleans has seen more Blacks leave than any other city in the country. The city has seen a 30% Black population drop since 2000, according to Census data. The trend is contrary to other South cities that are gaining new Black residents during the Reverse Migration. Washington D.C., once called "Chocolate City" is no longer majority Black. People of color continue to move away from the capitol’s gentrifying neighborhoods that are drawing affluent young white professionals. Since 2000, nearly 7.7 million Blacks have moved to southern states. The Black exodus is also happening in Chicago's predominantly Black South suburban areas, like Harvey, where 2,198 Blacks have moved out since 2010, and 6,945 Black residents since 2000. Additionally, Chicago’s other predominantly Black South suburbs–Dolton and Markham–experienced slight declines in their Black population. Dolton’s 20,439 Black population declined by 607 residents of color since 2010. Markham, which has 10,006 Black residents, lost 123 people of color since 2010. The article goes on to say that Charlotte, NC is one of the places Blacks are moving to. For those of you who don't know, Charlotte has experienced rapid growth after Bank of America decided to relocate their headquarters there.
They've been moving south. Like I said into Clayton County and even into Henry county where they now make up, I'd say 50% whereas 20-30 years ago it was roughly 10%. Now back in 1990 Clayton country was mostly rural and Henry all rural. Now the suburbs reach all the way down through Clayton and in the northern part of Henry. Farm land has almost completely vanished in Clayton and is fast vanishing in Henry. At least the northern third. Nowadays the towns are all linked up. No separation especially in Clayton. If you don't see the city sign, you wouldn't know you left one and entered another.
