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Originally Posted by atadytic19
Since 1980 California had gained 15M plus people but the black portion of that dropped from 8% to 5.5%.
The changes are even more shocking when you look at percentage losses from the major cities in California to other parts of California. For the Bay for example the black losses since the 80s near 50%.
Black people hear how diverse the Bay is and they get there and then ask where are the black folks?
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Huh? Blacks are very visible in the East Bay which is no small corner, and even in the City, I belong to a group that is far smaller than Blacks(Pacific Islander) and even I see other Pacific Islanders with regularity so I dont about this 'where are the black folks?' narrative?
Also, did these visitors also hear about how Blacks in the Bay Area are migrating inland because they can sell their 1 million-dollar shack in Oakland buy a huge house in Sacramento?
Because that's what's happened. The Black population in the Central Valley counties in and around the Bay Area CSA are exploding--and we are even seeing increases in San Francisco proper.
Also, keep in mind, Northern California is the largest multiracial corridor in the country by percentage of persons that are two or more races.
San Joaquin is 12% multiracial, the highest percent of any metropolitan county in the mainland United States.
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER RACES
2010................County..................2019
211,238.........Alameda.............. 206,411
114,137......... Contra Costa.......122,215
3,127..............El Dorado.................2,627
9,711..............Marin.......................8,5 92
11,024............Merced..................11,919
3,421..............Napa........................3,8 00
512.................Nevada....................1,20 8
7,030..............Placer.....................10,1 93
178,445..........Sacramento.........191,752
830.................San Benito..................937
55,405............San Francisco........56,089
61,722............San Joaquin...........66,960
25,348............San Mateo.............25,939
57,869............Santa Clara............64,718
3,749..............Santa Cruz...............5,889
72,504.............Solano...................73,892
11,131.............Sonoma.................13,563
18,956.............Stanislaus..............20,442
2,638...............Sutter.......................3 ,472
7,192...............Yolo......................... 8,009
3,095...............Yuba.........................4 ,264
859,082...Bay Area-Sacramento.. 902,891
The Black(of all races) population is actually growing in the greater Bay Area-Sacramento megalopolis, even as thousands of other Black households moved to more affordable areas of the country---the vast majority moved from the coast to the valley.
I predict Sacramento will surpass Alameda as the largest Black population in NorCal soon, in fact.
And that's okay, people have a right to move if they want a bigger house in a safer neighborhood for HALF the price. More power to them.