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Tonya
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 03:49 am: | 
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D.C. May Be Losing Status As a Majority-Black City
By N.C. Aizenman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 17, 2007; A01
The District of Columbia's longtime status as a majority-black city appears to be diminishing, even as Maryland and Virginia continue to experience a dramatic rise in their minority populations, according to census estimates released today.
The 14 percent increase in non-Hispanic white District residents and 6 percent decrease in blacks from 2000 to 2006 are probably the result of the gentrification of once-affordable city neighborhoods, demographers said.
The impact on the city's racial makeup is noticeable. In 2000, blacks made up 60 percent of the District's population. By 2006, that figure was 55 percent.
If the trends continue, the city will almost certainly cease to be majority black by 2020, said Robert E. Lang, director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. "It will wind up more like a Los Angeles or a New York, with no clear majority."
Nationally, minorities have far higher growth rates than non-Hispanic whites and make up more than a third of the U.S. population. Their numbers topped 100 million in 2006, with Hispanics accounting for 15 percent of the U.S. population, non-Hispanic blacks for 12 percent and Asians for 4 percent.
From 2000 to 2006, the number of non-Hispanic black residents in the District declined to 322,000, the number of non-Hispanic whites rose to about 184,000 and the number of Asians increased to 18,000, a 20 percent gain.
"What you see are whites moving into the city because they are able to afford the pricey housing in all these areas that are gentrifying and becoming much more middle and upper-middle class," said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. "Meanwhile, the city is becoming more unaffordable to lower-income black families."
Although the data are too general for definitive conclusions, Frey said it is likely that many black and Hispanic families are moving to Washington suburbs.
Ironically, Lang said, many majority-white cities in the country will become more multiracial and multi-ethnic because of the higher rates of growth in their minority populations compared with those of whites.
The trend is evident in Maryland: From 2000 to 2006, the state's Hispanic population grew by 48 percent, the Asian population by 28 percent and the non-Hispanic black population by 10 percent. The non-Hispanic white population declined by 1 percent.
Similarly, in Virginia, the non-Hispanic white population increased by 4 percent, compared with 46 percent for Hispanics, 36 percent for Asians and 8 percent for non-Hispanic blacks.
Because the white populations of both states were so large to begin with, whites remain a sizable majority. And only four states -- Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas -- are majority-minority. In theory, Lang said, the entire country could reach that status by 2040.
But Lang questions whether the term "minority" will be defined the same way by then. Nearly 2 percent of the population is identified as multiracial, he noted. And that percentage is likely to rise with intermarriage among races and ethnic groups. The notion of what is "white" is also likely to shift as it has since the 1900s, when Southern and Eastern Europeans were not counted as white.
"I don't think that officially there will ever be a moment where we're at majority-minority status, because long before you get to that point, the meaning of the term majority will be completely redefined," he said.
The U.S. Census Bureau also released statistics on age: Two states, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, had the second-highest percentage of people 65 and older, each with 15 percent. Florida remained No. 1 with 17 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602840. html |
Renata
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 10:47 am: |
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LOL...that's funny.
White people left the city and moved to the suburbs when it became legal for black people to live in the same neighborhood with them. Now that blacks are moving to the suburbs, white people are leaving them and moving back to the city.
Never mind me....racism is dead. |
Schakspir
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 12:42 pm: |
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Blacks are leaving D.C. because it's....just....horrible. I know, because I live here. In the eighties, D.C. was 70% black. By the mid-1990s, it was down to 66%. There's nothing here for black people, anyway, but a lot of pretty buildings filled with ugly, stuffy, anal people.
Truthfully, the outlying suburbs aren't much better, though. Black people here would do better to move to another state. |
Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2007 - 01:16 pm: |
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Cool. It's big raggedy and dangerous. Negroes need to spread out. They offer too much of a tempting target all bunched together.
This will probably contribute to a lowering of the violence rates, too. |
Serenasailor
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 04:11 pm: |
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Blacks are leaving D.C. because it's....just....horrible. I know, because I live here. In the eighties, D.C. was 70% black. By the mid-1990s, it was down to 66%. There's nothing here for black people, anyway, but a lot of pretty buildings filled with ugly, stuffy, anal people.
Truthfully, the outlying suburbs aren't much better, though. Black people here would do better to move to another state.
YEAH WE KNOW YOU LIVE THERE SCHASPIR/EASTWEST!!! |
Schakspir
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 - 04:40 pm: |
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Calm down. Adjust the vibrating speed on your butt-plug, you freak. |
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