Posted on 03/29/2011 2:57:11 AM PDT by Scanian
The latest data from the 2010 Census show how people are moving from place to place within America. In gen eral, people are voting with their feet against places where the liberal, welfare-state policies favored by the intelligentsia are most deeply entrenched.
When you break it down by race and ethnicity, it's painfully clear what's happening. Both whites and blacks are leaving California, the poster state for the liberal, welfare-state and nanny-state philosophy.
Whites are also fleeing the big Northeastern liberal, welfare states like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as the same kinds of states in the Midwest, such as Michigan, Ohio and Illinois.
The movement of the black population -- especially educated young blacks -- is the most striking.
The massive movements of millions of blacks out of the South in the early 20th century was one of the epic migrations of a people -- comparable in size with the millions of Irish who fled the famine in Ireland in the 1840s or the millions of Jews who fled persecution in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
More recently, blacks have been moving back to the South, however. While the overall black population of the Northeastern and Midwestern states hasn't declined in the last 10 years, except in Michigan and Illinois, the net rise of the black population nationwide has increasingly been in the South. About half of the growth of the black population took place in the South in the '70s, two-thirds in the '90s and three-quarters in the last 10 years.
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Has nothing to do with the south going conservative, now does it? /sarc
I purposely left Republicans out of it because we are having our own battles with the leadership.
They still vote Democrat and they still have a chip-on-the-shoulder entitlement attitude. At least most do. Most hate all other races but their own, and that attitude is often on display in their behavior. There was a time when I had great sympathy for what black people went through in earlier times, but my sympathy has given way to disgust with that “black” attitude.
Like the Northeastern whites who have moved south before them, these people want the benefits of living in conservative states but take their liberal voting habits with them.
Palm Beach and Broward Counties, FL, are dominated by hard-heads like that.
I guess they think the northern union states have been ruined by bad luck or magic rather than liberal stupidity.
black may be moving with their feet, but they still don’t understand why they have to move and thus vote DEM anyway, thus destroying the state in which they move to
98% of Blacks believed OJ Simpson was innocent and that he was brought up on charges by a white lynch mob.
Does that explain a lot about their objectivity? Is racism endemic to the Balck community?
City blacks are sending their kids to places like rural South Carolina or elsewhere they have family to avoid the pitfalls of gang life etc in the north cities.
-”98% of Blacks believed OJ Simpson was innocent and that he was brought up on charges by a white lynch mob.”
Well that's one of the blessings of stupidity. It blinds you to your own shortcomings.
Here in the specially gerrymandered black kongressional districts, the dumbest of the dumb who also exhibit a chip the size of texas and a bone deep sense of entitlement are generally elected to kongress. Hank Johnson*, John Lewis, and David Scott come to mind. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who fit the aforementioned criteria better than these three.
* Hank once worried that adding a navy base to one of the Pacific islands would "tip it over."
Don’t have much hope for blacks overall in America. Watch C-SPAN some mornings. Every single black caller says the exact mantra defending Obama and bashing Republicans as “for the rich”, without exception. They’ve been brainwashed, and ignore the results of Democrat destruction, such as Detroit or Newark.
Locust migrate.
Don’t fret none. They’ll eat the land to dust wherever they land next.
Going where the J-O-B-S are.
Blacks did not “believe” Simpson was innocent. The jury practiced what's known as jury nullification. It refuted the evidence and found Simpson innocent simply because he's black - which is a most flagrant form of racism...
I started posting this sentiment a couple of years ago.
Like locusts, they destroy everything in their path and have to keep moving on to prosperous places in order to survive, leaving poverty and misery in their wake.
Also the south is much more conservative overall.
“where the J-O-B-S are.”
I can hear Connie Francis belting that now.
Couldn’t have anything to do with Low taxes, Low regulation and Low litigation business climate, could it?
You got it! BINGO We have a WINNER!
Even that must have played a big part into why NBA b-ball player LaBron James went “south”.
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