Posted on 10/02/2006 1:20:05 PM PDT by dashing doofus
Median Income For Blacks Greater than Whites in Queens
New York, NY -- Queens is the only large county in the nation where the median income of black residents has surpassed that of white residents. That's according to Census data analyzed by the New York Times.
The picture is quite different across the river in Manhattan, where the gap between whites and blacks is wider than in any other large county in the country.
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Now that is ironic...
Also ironic is that Manhattan is probably the bluest of NYC's five boroughs (counties), and that is where the income disparity is the greatest.
I lived in Queens for a while, and it was much more conservative (though still blue).
Queens is blue in national elections, but is a swing county in state and city elections. It's probably the 2nd most conservative borough after Staten Island. Queens still has decent number of working class white people - it hasn't experienced white flight quite as bad as Brooklyn. I know there was a huge white flight from Brooklyn to Staten Island in the mid-1960's right after the Verrazano was opened.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
Why'd you change the headline?
Yeah. Interesting that the working folks in Queens and S.I. tend to vote more republican (though still blue in national county-by-county maps), while the boroughs with the richest residents (Manhattan) and the poorest (Brooklyn and Da Bronx) go solidly blue.
Because I am a doofus, and this was the first time I started a thread.
Well, it's not all that interesting in a way...it's a pretty common. Though, to be fair, both parties try to portray the other as the party of rich elitists and themselves as the party of working people, and the truth is, party affiliation remarkably evenly split among all income groups.
Also, Staten Island also goes Republican in national elections too. Staten Island almost always goes GOP for President, and they are represented in the House (along with part of Brooklyn) by Rep. Vito Fossella, a conservative Republican.
no, they are willing to work
Isn't Straten island also a Republican voting area, it is a more working class area.
btt
1. SE Queens has always had a large population of affluent blacks, particularly in Laurelton and Addesleigh Park.
2. A disproportionate share of the white population in Queens are senior citizen "empty nesters," whose nabes are now being repopulated by immigrants from other countries (especially east and south Asia).
3. The few young white folks who live in many parts of Queens are immigrants themselves, especially from Russia, Poland, Romania, and the Middle East (yes, Arabs are counted as "white" in the census, and their are many in Astoria and Long Island City).
Queens, on the other hand, is seeing its white population grey and move to the cemetaries, while Asians, Carribbean Blacks, and Latinos move in.
Don't fall for the old line, btw, about blue collar whites being "conservative" in this part of the country. If that were the case, Woodbridge, Carteret, Bayonne, and Camden County (NJ) would be the most Republican places in the tri-state area (hint: they aint).
See posts #14 and #15. Brooklyn in becoming yuppie, while Queens continues to change demographically.
1. SE Queens has always had a large population of affluent blacks, particularly in Laurelton and Addesleigh Park.
2. A disproportionate share of the white population in Queens are senior citizen "empty nesters," whose nabes are now being repopulated by immigrants from other countries (especially east and south Asia).
3. The few young white folks who live in many parts of Queens are immigrants themselves, especially from Russia, Poland, Romania, and the Middle East (yes, Arabs are counted as "white" in the census, and their are many in Astoria and Long Island City).
West Indian black business, two job hustling... BUMP BUMP!
2. Invest in South Florida real estate for your kids.
3. Retire to a farm in Trinidad, where you can lord over the locals who refused to leave when you did!
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