A mostly white voter wave is reshaping politics in D.C.

[Yakno1]

That good Black flight to the MD suburbs(PG/MO CO), DC hasn't been choc city in a while


Plenty Black folks making well over 6 figures in that region.......and can afford the high rents/mortgages in DC...guess the suburbs more attractive






http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...6d3-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html?hpid=z2

A surge of young, mainly white voters living in newly affluent neighborhoods emerged as a powerful force in last November’s elections in the District, a seismic shift that mirrors the evolution of the city’s population and could reshape its politics in years to come.

For the first time in 40 years, voters between the ages of 25 and 34 outnumbered senior citizens, an analysis of election data shows. Also for the first time, African Americans, who historically have exerted the greatest influence over District politics, lost their majority among voters.

The young voters cast ballots in gentrifying neighborhoods such as NoMa (short for North of Massachusetts Avenue), the H Street corridor and Shaw, while turnout declined in working- and middle-class African American precincts east of the Anacostia River. The shift appears to have been a key to the overwhelming passage of a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana that took effect last month.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Wrote a paper on this. shyt is telling

 

[Box Cutta]

It's not a state we get little out of having a majority there....I feel like the population is politically wasted....

Can someone tell me why having those voters in DC as opposed to MD/VA is preferable.

 

[the cac mamba]

The shift appears to have been a key to the overwhelming passage of a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana that took effect last month.

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

That good Black flight to the MD suburbs(PG/MO CO), DC hasn't been choc city in a while


Plenty Black folks making well over 6 figures in that region.......and can afford the high rents/mortgages in DC...guess the suburbs more attractive

Gentrification is a bytch breh. Finding ways to raise the property value is the reason there are more AA's in MoCo & PG, I know a lot of folks on subsidized housing out in MoCo, same with PG.

Shipped all the nikkas out, knew the city was changing when I seen white folks walking around Howard U at night with no fear

 

[Yakno1]

Gentrification is a bytch breh. Finding ways to raise the property value is the reason there are more AA's in MoCo & PG, I know a lot of folks on subsidized housing out in MoCo, same with PG.

Shipped all the nikkas out, knew the city was changing when I seen white folks walking around Howard U at night with no fear

True but it's still lot of black gwap in that region, plenty of high income households who choose to buy in the burbs....can't Knock where they want buy tho

 

[Heafcliffe]

Gentrification is a bytch breh. Finding ways to raise the property value is the reason there are more AA's in MoCo & PG, I know a lot of folks on subsidized housing out in MoCo, same with PG.

Shipped all the nikkas out, knew the city was changing when I seen white folks walking around Howard U at night with no fear

....with earplugs....In both ears.

The city has changed to the detriment of AAs. I'm EOTR (east of the river) in DC and my neighborhood is mostly black with some whites sprinkled in.

Two of my neighbors (black) told me they received a letter in the mail from white woman (pic was on the letter) asking for a meeting about a potential "offer" for their properties. I was stuck D - Will style.

Three houses and a condo are in the process of being renovated on my block. They are moving in with the swiftness.

 

[Yakno1]

....with earplugs....In both ears.

The city has changed to the detriment of AAs. I'm EOTR (east of the river) in DC and my neighborhood is mostly black with some whites sprinkled in.

Two of my neighbors (black) told me they received a letter in the mail from white woman (pic was on the letter) asking for a meeting about a potential "offer" for their properties. I was stuck D - Will style.

Three houses and a condo are in the process of being renovated on my block. They are moving in with the swiftness.

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