2 posts tagged “demographics”
- Oklahoma City
- Birmingham
- Memphis
- Indianapolis
- Columbus
- Kansas City
- Cincinnati
- San Antonio
- Charlotte
- Salt Lake City
- Nashville
- Atlanta
- Cleveland
- St. Louis
- Milwaukee
- Dallas-Fort Worth
- Jacksonville
- Houston
- Detroit
- Austin
"Where to Rent Cheap: Some rents in major metropolitan areas rose more than 10% this year, but apartments in the Midwest and South remain easy on the pocket," Business Week, Maya Roney, January 10, 2007
- Jacksonville, FL
- Columbus, OH
- Indianapolis, IN
- Charlotte, NC
- Dallas, TX
- Nashville, TN
- Houston, TX
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Washington, D.C. Metro
"10 Best Cities for African-Americans," Black Enterprise, earlier this year.
- New York, NY
- San Francisco, CA
- Fort Collins, CO
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Chicago, IL
- Portland, OR
- Boise, ID
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Miami, FL
- Austin, TX
- Madison, WI
- Tucson, AZ
U.S. cities listed in "30 Fastest Cities to Live, Work, and Play" slideshow in "Fast Cities 2007," Fast Company, Andrew Park, July/August 2007
[...] Consider this: Just 40 years ago, one could make certain assumptions about the average Negro, or black American. She was probably no more than one generation removed from the South; whether a Northerner or Southerner, he had first-hand knowledge of Jim Crow, or segregation; when it came to religion, he or she was most likely Protestant. But scholars like Vernellia Randal, a law professor at the University of Dayton, point out that those assumptions have fallen in the face of urbanization, migration and integration. [...]
Afi-Odelia Scruggs' Cleveland Plain Dealer op-ed "Obama's identity crisis"
[...] "I think it could very well be generational—that people like myself, who are older and more established and have these relationships, will stay with the people that we know. Whereas younger people, who don’t have these relationships, will say that this fellow seems to be an outsider too—and so, therefore, they are attracted to him." [...]
Ex-New York State Comptroller Carl McCall, quoted in Jason Horowitz's New York Observer article "Clinton, Obama Vying for Black Power-Brokers"
Update:
[...] According to Census Bureau figures, in 2004, African-Americans cast 14 million votes nationwide. Now comes this stunner: Because African-American men not only are fewer in number but also register and vote at much lower rates, black women cast almost three of every five of these votes - 59 percent, to be precise. White women also outnumber, out-register and outvote white men, but the disparity is smaller (53 percent to 47 percent). [...]
[...] Senator Obama's allure may be perceived as more generationally prospective, whereas the appeal of Senator Clinton - the former first lady married to the man novelist Toni Morrison once called the "first black president" - is deemed more historically retrospective. "He brings a lot to our heritage and culture, especially to our youth," said Victoria Haynes, a 47-year-old Denver native who worked on the campaign of newly elected Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. "She brings a lot of strength as a woman who came from behind her husband to lead as a woman." [...]
Thomas F. Schaller's Baltimore Sun op-ed "Black women face dilemma in Democratic primary"
