Jan06
“With the first decade of the 21st century having drawn to a close, Baltimore is on the verge of a major demographic development.
For the first decade since the city’s population decline began some 60 years ago, white flight is not the leading cause of the decrease in the number of residents – black flight is.
According to the most recent census estimates, since 2000 the number of non-Hispanic whites in the city has declined by about 7,000, to about 196,000. The number of blacks, by contrast, has fallen by nearly 17,000, to just over 400,000.” (more…)
I guess the ones that are staying behind are the online folks who measure true Blackness based on whether or not one lives in the city or in the suburbs.
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