Uncle Tom Blacks and Racist whites controlling certain persons of color don't want the public to learn of this information of many getting out of Chicago a man in Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. was man enough to state Chicago was more racist than any city he been in in the south Mississippi and Alabama.
The Jim Crow laws are still being enforced that has been outlawed by the United States Constitution and plantation politics is city halls specialty of enforcement.
Black exodus accelerates in Cook County, census shows
Marwa EltagouriContact ReporterChicago Tribune
Cook County in 2016 again recorded the largest black population of any county in the U.S., but it carries that title with less conviction than previous years as more African-Americans move to outlying suburbs or warmer states in the South and West, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
Between 2015 and 2016, more than 12,000 black residents left Cook County, an increase from the previous year when about 9,000 residents left. The greater Chicago area, which for the census includes parts of Indiana and Wisconsin, has lost nearly 46,000 black residents since 2010. That exodus is larger than in any other metropolitan area in the country.
"I've noticed people have been leaving the city of Chicago, absolutely," said Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church in Chicago's predominantly black Woodlawn neighborhood. "Families, especially, and some single-parent households with young males. I think those two factors are contributing to the numbers you're seeing."
Some of those who left Chicago and Cook County relocated to other parts of the state, but Illinois still recorded a population drop of about 10,000 black residents between 2015 and 2016, more than any other state. Experts say it is an indication that the majority of the state's black flight is occurring in Chicago.
The black exodus is part of a larger pattern of general population decline in the region. Illinois dropped by 37,508 people in 2016, losing more residents than any other state, and Chicago was the only city among the country's 10 largest to drop in population. Between 2015 and 2016, the greater Chicago area lost 19,570 residents.
Dozens of former residents surveyed by the Tribune over the past year who've packed up cite a variety of reasons for leaving: high taxes, the state budget stalemate and the weather. But what's propelling black flight isn't quite the same as what's driving out the city's white population.
Africans-Americans are leaving in search of stability, experts say, hoping to find stable incomes and safe neighborhoods, something they feel Chicago isn't offering them. The city of Chicago lost 181,000 black residents between 2000 and 2010, according to census data.
Brooks said one of the factors contributing to Chicago violence is a shortage of jobs.
"It's not just gang violence retaliation," he said. "(Violence) is about economics. People can't eat. People can't sustain their families."
William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, said he thinks the trend points to conditions beyond just crime.
"People move from the city to the suburbs for a host of things, crime being one of them. But I wouldn't expect those people to move from a whole metropolitan area. Something bigger's going on," he said, referencing the region and state's general population loss.
Similarly to other Illinois residents, black residents are flocking to warm-weather states — something demographers are calling "reverse migration." During the years after the economic recession of the late 2000s migration to those states slowed, but it's heated up again as states in the South have better job opportunities and affordable housing.
Census numbers also show that African-Americans continue to move to the suburbs, a pattern that began in the 1970s — when manufacturing jobs started to dry up — and picked up in the 2000s.
Southern states are especially a draw for young black residents, Frey said. Jobs are attracting African-Americans in their 20s and 30s, and it's easier for them to simply move from college or their parents' home. Southern states tend to have a larger black middle class and more networking opportunities, he said.
It's possible younger African-Americans are heading South for cultural reasons, too, perhaps to reconnect with relatives in a region steeped in black history, experts say.
The greater Atlanta area in 2016 had the largest numerical increase in black residents in the U.S., gaining more than 46,000 black residents, according to census data. But Fulton County, where most of Atlanta sits, still has far fewer black residents than Cook County.
Fulton County had about 458,000 black residents in 2016, while Cook County had about 1.3 million black residents. Cook County has had the largest number of black residents of any county since at least 2010.
Experts believe it's largely middle-class families leaving Chicago, although affluent African-American families have relocated too. In 2015, a Tribune article detailed how Chicago had fallen out of the top 10, from seventh place to 21st, in the percentage of black households earning at least $100,000. Many of the cities on that list are now in the South as a result of reverse migration.
Brooks, the South Side pastor, says the consequences of so many black residents leaving each year is that these neighborhoods will deteriorate or lose their identities, and potentially succumb to gentrification.
"Unless we all come together as a community to try and resolve these issues ourselves, unless we build businesses and create jobs," he said, "we'll be left with communities ravished by crime, violence and a bad economy."
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