Smash255
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« on: June 13, 2006, 12:12:54 AM » |
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Part of the issue is also a $$$ issue. Home values tend to be much higher in the northeast than in the south. Even in some of the heaviest minority neighborhoods the housing costs are quite high, but tend to be quite a bit lower than housing costs in mostly white neighborhoods. One neighborhood to the next can have drastic differences in home values in the northeast, the housing value differencial from one area to the next n the south tends to be quite a bit smaller. Whites tend to make more $$$ than African Americans.
In other words the housing costs differencials in the south from one area to the next are smaller than the differences in the northeast. As a result their tends to be more income diversity and more racial diversity in the south than in the northeast.
Also as mentioned by another poster the rural factor, you have a much larger amount of rural southern blacks than rural northeastern blacks
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