The South is the last refuge for freedom and black prosperity.

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

My own neighboring town is on this list.

The Cities Where African-Americans Are Doing The Best Economically
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The U.S. may have its first black president, but these have not been the best of times for African-Americans. Recent shootings of unarmed black teenagers and the murder of two New York City police officers have inflamed racial tensions. A Bloomberg poll in December found that 53% of respondents believed that race relations have declined since Obama was elected in 2008.

Even if the results were not skewed by the immediate, impassioned responses to the recent tragedies, the persistent economic gap between whites and blacks is a more serious and deep-rooted problem. The unemployment rate for African-Americans stood at 10.4% in December, more than twice that of whites, as it has been for most of the past 40 years.

Blacks’ real median household income ticked up to $34,598 in 2013, roughly 59% that of whites’, a ratio that has also not varied much since the Census Bureau began tracking this data in 1967.

Where African-Americans took a significant step back in recent years was in household wealth, which plunged 31% during the recession, including a steep 35% decline in their retirement assets, which the Urban Institute suggests was partially due to the unemployed drawing down savings to cover living expenses. The wealth of white families fell a comparatively mild 11% from 2007-10.

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[Webster]

*scratches head in thought* Isn't the South also an area where a person can fly the Confederate battle flag a certain treasonous rag in public and on public grounds w/out fear or complaint from the average Southerner moron?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*scratches head in thought* Isn't the South also an area where a person can fly the Confederate battle flag a certain treasonous rag in public and on public grounds w/out fear or complaint from the average Southerner moron?

It is and yet happily the black population is doing far better here in terms of income and freedom. Let alone looking at crime the freedoms to have a gun and stand your ground laws have helped them defend themselves even more then the white population. If you are productive come on down I am happy to have you all!

 

[Webster]

*scratches head in thought* Isn't the South also an area where a person can fly the Confederate battle flag a certain treasonous rag in public and on public grounds w/out fear or complaint from the average Southerner moron?

It is and yet happily the black population is doing far better here in terms of income and freedom. Let alone looking at crime the freedoms to have a gun and stand your ground laws have helped them defend themselves even more then the white population. If you are productive come on down I am happy to have you all!

Oh, I got no problem on the one hand, but it still makes me wonder on the other why we feel compelled to honor traitors and rogues who tried to break up the United States during the Civil War...as I told an SCV official years ago:

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

*scratches head in thought* Isn't the South also an area where a person can fly the Confederate battle flag a certain treasonous rag in public and on public grounds w/out fear or complaint from the average Southerner moron?

It is and yet happily the black population is doing far better here in terms of income and freedom. Let alone looking at crime the freedoms to have a gun and stand your ground laws have helped them defend themselves even more then the white population. If you are productive come on down I am happy to have you all!

Oh, I got no problem on the one hand, but it still makes me wonder on the other why we feel compelled to honor traitors and rogues who tried to break up the United States during the Civil War...as I told an SCV official years ago:

I have lived in Florida all my life and seeing that flag is a rare thing anymore. But I know people have a one tracked mind on the matter that it only means that person must hate blacks. But it is not the case at all.

 

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Oh, I got no problem on the one hand, but it still makes me wonder on the other why we feel compelled to honor traitors and rogues who tried to break up the United States during the Civil War...as I told an SCV official years ago: