“Lancaster’s large African-American population did not prompt Malcolm Mayo to buy a house there last year.
Mr. Mayo, 34, said it was because he could get more house for his money in Lancaster – and still maintain a manageable commute to his financial analyst job at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Lancaster’s proximity to Dallas is one of the features that makes it attractive to newcomers, city officials say.
The majority of Lancaster’s growth in the last 10 years has been in black households.
In the 2000 census, the city’s population was 53 percent African-American. And a growing number of those households – 7 percent, according to 2000 census figures – were in the upper-income bracket of $100,000 or more.” (more…)
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I would like to hear from some of you who have either visited this area, or live in this area and can draw comparisons to cities like Atlanta and/or Prince George’s Co., Maryland.
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