Southern Public Schools are First to Become Majority-Minority

NYT ^ | January 7, 2010 | Dewan

[bilhosty]

If this is true then down the line we will lose the south which means we lose everything. We had a majority in the 90’s and they just delivered tax cuts to their donors and let the country go to hell. We were sold out. There no point in turning out the base or coopting the middle it is all lost. The only thing to do is get even with MCCain and company. The passive do nothing Bush country clubbers are the scum of the earth. they think only about the present and themselves and let tomorrow and the rest of the country go to hell.

[wardaddy]

racial slavery

oooooo...like that is so much worse than regular old run of the mill slavery..lol

i'm 52 and a Jackson Miss native....they forced busing in January 1970 and kept school out for a week longer

it's been total crap since then....any white kid in Jackson public schools especially high school today is in trouble

hope the last generation of Reconstructionists are happy now

this article is bull btw...

[wardaddy]

I’m not saying it’s good or bad or right or wrong

no problem I will do it for you....

It's bad they desegregated and forced busing and destroyed neighborhood schools because suddenly you have a huge influx of fatherless black kids raised by an old granny who wreak havoc on the whole system and no one today short of Joe Clark can handle it and weak soft raised white kids are too polite and brainwashed to fight back.

It's a good thing that whites or whomever could afford it moved-or took their kids out of that hellhole.

I have lived this both as a kid and a parent. My companies pay 250,000 dollars a year in state and local taxes for public school and this is what I get?

add to that socialist braindead dumbasrocks teacher- harridans who push their fembot crap on my kids anyhow....you think I'm bitter?

Whitelandians have no clue what diversity is really all about...the subjugation of the majority.

[Travis McGee]

It’s called reality, but most folks are so PC-uber-alles brainwashed that they can’t face reality.

They would rather die, literally, than confront un-PC truth.

[Clemenza]

Based on the states as a whole. In much of the south, the rural and inner suburban districts are majority-"of color." In Ohio, to say nothing of here in the northeast, the rural and suburban schools are largely white.

Remember, the majority of the country's black population still lives in the South. There has also been an influx of blacks from the north (the "Reverse Great Migration") over the past 15 years.

[Alas Babylon!]

It depends on not only what area of the South, but also on what state, and then even regions and counties within a state. Here in Alabama, there really hasn't been much change demographically. The percentage of blacks and whites remain the same (26-72%, respectively), with no change between 2000 and 2010. There are counties that are very rural and very black, and there are counties that are very rural and very white. To this day, it still seems to be where the cotton plantations where. If, in 1860, there where vast cotton fields, then to this day they are majority black population. Where there were only small farms, or the mountains where there were so-called hill billies, they are still majority white.

My county is very white, yet we border Macon county, with it's county seat of Tuskegee, and it is very black, around 85%. And sure enough, our county is where the Appalachians end, and Macon is where the flat black belt (named for the soil, not the folks) begins.

Atlanta and Houston has seen a return migration for black folks. New Orleans has had the opposite.

[Clemenza]

You are absolutely correct. Going from eastern TN to western TN is like going demographically from the Scottish Highlands (sans the kilts and with different funny accents) to Jamaica (without the white sandy beaches).

[RegulatorCountry]

I grew up in a county in North Carolina, containing both categories, descendants of Scots-Irish and German settlers in the west and north, and the plantation belt in the east and south, with black descendants of former slaves, the white, largely English-descended children of the former slave owners, and the extremely combative and occasionally very racist mixed race people who lived in certain enclaves (sounds strange and illogical, I know, but it was so).

When the small town high schools were abandoned in favor of consolidated county high schools, in the mid-60’s and before my time, geography dictated two schools, north and south. The one to the south contained stridently white students from a “sundown town,” students from mixed race indian-white-black communities, students from a former all-black school, and all the rural students in between. It was still in a state of occasional upheaval when I came along in the early 80’s. The high school to the north was and is almost entirely white and extremely rural, with no real towns to speak of, just crossroads with a post office and a gas station/general store.

[Rebelbase]

There are counties in the Metro Atlanta area that have had their school systems de-certified meaning colleges don’t accept grads. I wonder why?