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In it's May issue, Black Enterprise Magazine, released it's ranking for the top 10 cities for American African Americans. Here are the top ten:
- Washington, DC
- Atlanta, GA
- Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Houston, TX
- Nashville, TN
- Dallas, TX
- Charlotte, NC
- Indianapolis, IN
- Columbus, OH
- Jacksonville,FL
These top ten cities....
All have a higher percentage of black high school graduates than the national average.
Nine have a higher percentage of black college graduates than the national average.
Seven boasted median black household incomes above the national average.
Four out of 10 have a African American mayor.
The rankings were created from an analysis of economic indicators (African American educational attainment levels, job growth, number of black-owned businesses, black home ownership rates, etc.), as well as an evaluation of results from a web survey that received more than 2000 respondents.
Check out the full feature here.
posted by Steven
As in past years, this list is dominated by sprawling, sunbelt cities, mostly in the Southeast (and the ones outside of it, like Columbus, Indy, and DC, are among the most sprawling, sunbelt-like cities in their respective regions). Regardless, these cities also rank fairly high on creative class measures.
Are we seeing a sorting-out between largely Northern, white-dominated creative class cities (Seattle, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Boston, etc., even New York and Chicago to some extent), vs. more mixed white-black Southern ones? I'm wondering if many African-Americans prefer the more "countrified city" (to use Robert Lang's phrase) feel of the New South, due to their ancestral cultural connections there, as opposed to the denser, more historic cities of the north (which are in a sense, scaled up New England towns).
Posted by: MPS | May 03, 2007 at 01:54 PM
MPS: Your stereotyping of both Blacks and of southern cities astounds me.
Posted by: Malaika924 | May 12, 2007 at 09:27 PM
Duh...How racially diverse is NYC?????? What a stupid comment. Dig deeper, and then comment!
Posted by: Idnew | January 15, 2008 at 07:23 PM