US CENSUS DATA: Black Americans Are Moving South.

Business Insider ^ | 03/28/2011 | John Ellis

[SeekAndFind]

Black Americans are leaving northern states and relocating in the south, US census data show. Blacks are not just leaving Michigan, as one would expect. They are leaving New York and Illinois and the two major cities therein: New York City and Chicago.

The New York Times reports that those leaving tend to be "younger and better educated." Walter Mead has a long post today on what this reversal of "the great migration" means for the "Big Blue" model of Democratic Party governance. Here's an excerpt:

"The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks is the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States. Helping Blacks achieve the kind of equality and opportunity long denied them was more than one of many justifications for blue social policy: it was the defining moral task that has challenged and shaped American liberalism for the last fifty years.

The Census tells us that in the eyes of those who know best, these well intentioned efforts failed. Instead of heaven, we have hell across America’s inner cities. Blue economic policy has cut the creation of new private sector jobs to a trickle in our great cities, while the high costs of public union urban services (and policies that favor government employees over the citizenry at large) impose crippling taxes and contribute to the ruinously high costs that blight opportunity. All the social welfare bureaucracies, diversity counselors and minority set-asides can’t make up for the colossal failure of blue social policy to create sustainable lower middle class prosperity in our cities."

[SeekAndFind]

Does anyone have any figures regarding which direction Hispanic Americans are mostly moving?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I can't help but be reminded of the scene in Huckleberry Finn where Huck is queried as to whether his companion Jim was a runaway. Huck's reply: "Goodness sakes, would a runaway [slave] run south?

Proof positive that times have truly changed.

[Disambiguator]

Are they taking their Democrat-voting proclivities with them? If so, they’re just going to wreck another location. White liberals do the same thing all the time.

[bikerman]

Does anyone have any figures regarding which direction Hispanic Americans are mostly moving?

Which ever place gives the most benefits.

[Mears]

Good for them.

Real estate is cheaper and the weather is better.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Which ever place gives the most benefits.

Well, if true, that means as blacks move South, Hispanics move North ( Northeast ) and Southwest (California).

[workerbee]

Helping Blacks achieve the kind of equality and opportunity long denied them was more than one of many justifications for blue social policy: it was the defining moral task that has challenged and shaped American liberalism for the last fifty years.

Yeah, right. The only "moral task" the Left has had in regard to black Americans is that they pull the D lever.

[Jack Hydrazine]

blue = Red and red = Blue.

[Juan Medén]

Let me see. Young, well-educated blacks are moving south. Could it be that blacks too prefer economic opportunity to liberal government hand outs? Nah, that would undermine the liberal statist myth and upset the liberal strategy — keep them poor, stupid, and dependent.

[Red Badger]

Norte.............

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Proof positive that times have truly changed.

Yep, this is the great migration reversal that people don’t talk about (but will soon start talking about)

[rlmorel]

"...The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks..."

The "Blue Social Policy" will never work.

Never.

People like Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell have a crystal clear understanding of that, but they are ostracized, ridiculed and rejected by the very people who would benefit from that conviction.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Norte.............

¿Porque Norte? ¿Por qué no sur?

[ClearCase_guy]

Bingo. New England? The entire Great Lakes region? Looks like the black population is fleeing those areas. But, everyone is fleeing those areas. Lots of population loss, because Liberal Democrats have killed the economy in those areas.

Maybe this isn't about race at all. Maybe it's just a reflection of the fact that Democrats kill jobs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s quite an irony that the new cursed plantations are in the north, not the South, while the South beckons with the old fashioned race blind American dream of opportunity to earn one’s way into prosperity rather than subsist on subsidies.

[MEGoody]

Which, I guess, shows us that the South is not as racist as some would have us believe.

[HiTech RedNeck]

mark my words: rednecks come in many colors (bless them all)

[BikerJoe]

The New York Times reports that those leaving tend to be "younger and better educated."

Which is exactly what started the whole problem. Back in the bad old days when we were stupid and bigoted and had segregation, at least the potentially bad kids had positive role models around them (pharmacists, lawyers, doctors) all living in the same neighborhoods. Then we got integrated, and the ones who COULD get out, did! All the NYT is saying is that it's still happening...the only ones left are the ones who can't or won't get out.

[Hacklehead]

In other words liberals are moving south and red states will become blue. Blue states in the south will be bluer.