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That's why Bajan made a great point about middle income black people living in low income black neighborhoods. We tend to buy houses and are far outnumbered by those in apartments.
I agree and this is something that is found all over. For instance, people think of the West and South sides of Chicago the same way they may think of much of SE DC, but you have neighborhoods in Beverly (Hills), Ashburn and Morgan Park in outer SW Chicago that are similar to Penn Branch and northern Woodland, where the residents are middle class. So, this can be found in cities across the country with a sizeable Black population.
True, but are they as wide as DC when it comes to median income and cost of living? Black people have substantially more disposable income because their income is so high, yet housing is so low. That's why I said it was flawed. That's all.
Most of the major metros are. But again, using a metro-wide standard COL is the best, and the most reasonable and realistic, you're going to get.
I agree and this is something that is found all over. For instance, people think of the West and South sides of Chicago the same way they may think of much of SE DC, but you have neighborhoods in Beverly (Hills), Ashburn and Morgan Park in outer SW Chicago that are similar to Penn Branch and northern Woodland, where the residents are middle class. So, this can be found in cities across the country with a sizeable Black population.
Oak Knoll(Chabot Park/Sequoyah) in Oakland are a couple of similar neighborhoods that surround the Oakland Zoo and east of I-580. Both of the census tracts in that area have 6 figure median household incomes and the area is about 52% Black. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoy...nd,_California
That's mainly because of the government/military presence in the area in the Chesapeake. That's why Fayetteville, NC has a higher Black median household income than either Charlotte or Durham. Raleigh's is a little higher, but it also has the government presence being a state capital.
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These are some interesting articles that I ran across that may shed some light on this:
Yeah, I already know that there is more to it than the military/government, but the articles you posted are decent. I more so find it interesting because of how high each were on the list and how close they are physically (Chesapeake Crescent). Throw in Del State then you have Morgan/Coppin/UMES/Bowie, Howard/UDC, VUU/VSU, Hampton and NSU and you have a decent pool of folks feeding into the area. That's like a Black Meccaopolis. Also, no disrespect to Memphis but, Raleigh being a capitol(govt) in a "booming" metro in a state with the most HBCUs...I just find it funny how they aren't on the list but those other cities are. Charlotte the next "Black Mecca"? It should be on there.
I wouldn't read too much into the list with metros with Black households making 100K or more; I think Black per capita and median household income levels are probably a bit more relevant and Raleigh/Durham and Charlotte do well there, relatively speaking.
I just didn't want to make a thread about it so I posted it on here since this is "safer" from the normal C-D trolls
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