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ORIGINAL: BamaD I don't believe Newark and New York were unique but a lot of white people and manufacturing jobs bailed out of the urban areas. A few years ago people were complaining about "white flight" from Montgomery. They even did a study to prove how bad it was. Turned out that blacks were getting out of Montgomery as fast as they could as well. What is often assumed to be "White flight" is more often those who want a better life for their families, blacks and whites flee the cesspools that many cities have become. You are absolutely right, Bama. However, the movement of Middle Class blacks has compounded the dire situation of the core cities. The fault line is not just growth vs. loss; it also harbors a racial component. The shrinking cities are 73 percent black, overall, and the growing cities are 12 percent black, overall. The overall changes in population mapped by The News "suggest a great deal of movement in and around Birmingham in the past 10 years," said Theresa Davidson, a sociologist at Samford University. The shrinking cities, she observed, have lost both blacks and whites but retain a higher proportion of blacks. "This is a trend we've seen across the U.S. since the 1970s and the loss of manufacturing jobs," Davidson said. "White flight and middle-class black flight from the inner cities have generally left behind a population that is particularly disadvantaged." "Thus, many cities around the country, and the city of Birmingham is clearly no exception, experience concentrated and sustained poverty," she said. "These are areas where residents have very low levels of human capital -- education, job skills, etc. -- ineffective social networks, and thus limited ability to alter their own circumstances." Furthermore, as upwardly mobile residents abandon the city, she explained, they take resources with them, so the city will have fewer retail businesses and other services and fewer job opportunities. "Historically, this means areas will experience higher crime, higher school dropout rates, more single-parent households and other aspects of social disorganization," Davidson said. "If these areas remain neglected and abandoned, we will see intergenerational poverty and all the disadvantages that go along with that reality." source That is economics. More blacks , proportionally, live in poverty and those people are traped in the cities. Then they keep voteng in people who treat them like helpless childrem at best, like surfs at worst. The mayor in Baltimore with her give them room to destroy order was sacrificing young blacks for a couple of points of popularity. Of course, it is economics, and economics is a greater force than politics not only in the inner cities. Mines and manufacturing have closed across the country. Actually, although i think he is a nasty mother fucker arrogant turd and would never want him as president Trump, imo, is right about the disaster of these free trade deals and the off-shoring of jobs. As far as i know the only way to stop that would be to raise tariffs quite high, but that would be a bigger disaster. Furthermore, job displacement by new technology and automation are issues totally ignored. The big hurt is going to spread in the years ahead. Where the fuck is Paul Revere when we really need him? I've thought about this for years. Decades ago I realized that Americans were pricing themselves out of the labor market. I was all for free trade and figured there'd be an adjustment. Well, the adjustment didn't happen because liberals took politics and told people it wasn't their fault and the government would take care of them. That didn't work well. Now, because of that, I see my tribe, all Americans, are hurting and don't see a way out. I firmly believe that tariffs for countries like China that dump on our market to destroy our market are reasonable. I'm beginning to believe that tariffs that will essentially put my tribe back to work will cost less than the system being run in inner cities now.
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