[Cronos]

Let's see Gamecock, Buffalo is a shrinking city, here are the population statistics from the US census bureau

Census	Population	%+/-
1950	580,132	0.7%
1960	532,759	-8.2%
1970	462,768	-13.1%
1980	357,870	-22.7%
1990	328,123	-8.3%
2000	270,240	-7.7%
Estimated 2009	270,240	-7.7%

So Buffalo has shrunk to nearly 50% of it's population, with people leaving to go to other parts of the country. In fact, as per wikipedia , Buffalo's current population is equivalent to its population in the year 1890, reversing 120 years of demographic change.

The East Side was Polish-American and the West, Italian American, but now the Poles have moved out and the East side is predominantly an AFrican-American neighborhood.

The Muslim population has increased and is now 3,000 --> 1.5% of the city's population --> now THAT should be the news you and I should be worried about

[Carpe Cerevisi]

All the Catholic snowbirds are heading to Gamecock country.

[padre35]

East side kid right here..:D

The old neighborhood featured shuttered businesses and empty homes, did attend my Grandmother’s funeral at the local RCC but they opened it for that occasion...and even then, though she lived their for well over 30yrs, it was a tiny service.

[RnMomof7]

The diocese of Buffalo is extensive going all the way out to all the suburbs and farmland and including Niagara Falls and its suburbs the churches are shuttered there as well... the emptying of the center city is a sadness....