US states by black population(2017 Census)

[CookisaCac]

Texas

 

[intruder]

Black people are centralized for the most part, in terms of high percentage black areas. So it's easy for someone who hasn't really left their region of the US to feel as if the Black population is higher than they think. But more than 50% would be insane....

Man this dude just loved to argue. Take him an hour to cut me from stopping and arguing shyt with other people all the time. That's why he's no longer my barber.
Cant remember where exactly he was from but dude be serious talking about "I put my life on it. That's my word"

Edit: Now i remember he was from NY and NJ. He was always repping BX or BK cant remember. Older head. Probably 45 if not 50 by now. I can only take so much of NY street cats because they swear they know everything. Other NY cats are alright. But the typical self proclaimed "streets" brehs be on some other shyt.

 

[Spade]

People from Cali and Toronto always say this but everybody else knows Race >>> Ethnicity >>> Nationality.
Plus the west coast has ZERO afrolatin and caribbean presence outside of Belizean pockets in LA.
The east doesn't have very many pacific islanders outside of filipinos tho...

I get that. Just saying people using that percentage against that state's black population. Most of Texas population lives in the triangle plus East Texas. I would bet in most East Texas towns, it's still majority black. Most of the Mexican population either lives in the cities or outside the triangle west of I-35 and South of I-10.

 

[AB Ziggy]

How does NY have more AA's GA?

They likely included the 1st/2nd gen Caribbeans/Africans in the Census to boost the numbers.

 

[im_sleep]

Yeah, I moved out here to Arizona from Ohio, and I swear like 80% of the time I meet someone else black, they mention they're from somewhere in the Midwest. There's a LOT of folks from Chicago out here.

Yeah a lot of that is family ties. All my family for example during the great migration either went West(So Cal, Bay Area, Phoenix) or Midwest(Chicago and Kansas City) so there’s a lot of bouncing around between those places.

The black population has to be growing in AZ and Nevada and Washington. It's hard to imagine that 300,000 black ppl in those states is actually less than they've ever had. Cali may be losing black ppl, but Alot of those black ppl just end up moving to nearby western states. The furthest east California Blacks seem to be moving in droves, is Texas and maybe a little bit of them move to GA. But for every black person CA loses, it seems interior western states like AZ and NV gain those black ppl.

I would say moving to other western states or moving inland in-state was the primary move back in the day, especially the 90’s. By the time we got to the 2000’s Texas seemed to be the main move, and to a lesser extent Georgia(ATL) which gets a bit of everybody. And all of that’s not even taking into account reverse migration over the decades to towns people’s families originally migrated from.

 

[Biscayne]

But California stans said black people were everywhere in the state and weren't getting ran out but they barely cracked the top 30 in percentages

:RussTales:

To be fair that doesn't mean they are necessarily being "ran out" of California. Even if California had it's heyday black population of 3million plus black ppl, the overall black percentage would still be low, even if the raw numbers were high. CA's lower black percentage isn't necessarily an indicator of black ppl fleeing CA, as it is CA just being a popular state for everyone. Especially popular for Mexican immigrants. It has more to do with CA's geography as much as anything else as to why it's black percentage is so low. CA is literally bordered by Mexico to the South and a bunch of predominantly White/Mexican states to the North, and East. The fact that california even attracted 4million black ppl at one point to move across the US and the fact that it still retains 2.5million black ppl is a testament to CA's popularity rather than its failure to attract black ppl. Even today you can still find a Black middle class in Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Leimert Park, Maxwell Park, Moreno Valley, etc, etc. It's easy for states on the east coast and the South to have higher black populations when they boarder other predominantly black areas that have historical connections to slavery and are geographically closer to black nation's in the Caribbean(NY, Fla, MD, etc). If a black person lives in CA, AZ, CO, etc that means they really wanted to live in those states.

 

[Biscayne]

Georgia is the best state for Black people.

• Black mayor of Atlanta
• Black governor of the state of Georgia (likely)
• HBCUs of all flavors
• A big public HBCU called Georgia State, which is churning out Black grads
• There's a world-class tech school called Georgia Tech where you can pay pennies to get a degree if you are a resident
• Opportunities in film, music, etc.
• A two-hour flight to just about any other Black hub--DMV, Charlotte, Memphis, NYC, Philly, etc.
• Black-oriented music festivals, etc.

 

[Biscayne]

Death in numbers. Louisiana sounds like hell

Louisiana is the world's prison capital
Louisiana is the world's prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13 times China's and 20 times Germany's.

United States in general jails Alot of people. Louisiana's problems is just a microcosm of problems nationwide.

 

[Jemmy]

Don't let them have anything that isn't there's. If you're black and own anything of value up that way(Midwest, Northeast, Out West) than keep on keeping on. Don't just up and leave and "let white folks have it".

You’re right. They should keep whatever it is out there that is theirs. They still should come South and build. If anything we could learn from Brooklyn is to keep whatever it is we have anywhere. Don’t take the first offer on anything.

 

[JBoy]

thought Jawja was still on 30%, we 32% now

 

[Jemmy]

Whites aren't relegating themselves to certain states. The south may be the blackest region, but it's still predominantly White. Hell, whites are starting to move back into previously respected black havens. No where could realistically be "blacks only".



Not even the south. That's a fantasy...

But black ppl can make the best of what we'd do have.

Whites have a history of white flight no matter the place. Whites originally left South Carolina in droves cause they said it was turning into Africa. They only came back after the Great Migration. Even if the situation is great for them I’m convinced they’d leave and try to convince themselves that they’re leaving areas that are turning into “ghettos”. We can easily use the anywhere Black people go property value drops and redlining methods they created against them.

 

[Biscayne]

Cannot forget Florida here.

I agree. But Florida is in a weird space. There's plenty of black people and a hidden black middle class in Fla. But Florida doesn't market it's self like GA and other Southern states do. Florida doesn't market it's self as a black mecca, even though the numbers are there and those numbers are growing quickly. I guess when the numbers are perceived to be bolstered by civil unrest and natural disaster in foreign nations, it makes the black growth in Fla seem "cheap" compared to other states. For the record, there's a large black middle class in certain parts of Florida that is low-key. Broward County isn't all just Pompano Beach and Lauderhill.

 

[K.Dot]

Georgia the only state top 5 in both

The Mecca

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Wisco where i thought it would be from sheer population of blacks. we're slept on tho

 

[The Mad Titan]

West coast looking real