Latino gang tries to drive out black family from Compton

[memphis]

One of many reasons why blacks are leaving California in droves.

A much more important reason why Blacks are leaving California.
Here's a $310,000 house in Compton:

Here's a $275,000 in the "fancy" black suburban area of Memphis. Not at all to my tastes, but you get the point. California is too damn expensive.

[memphis]

What strikes me as the most interesting is how today, the so so suburbs are where one frequently finds the most racial diversity. Lots of new immigrants, upwardly mobile blacks, plain whites who self identify their ancestry simply as "American." They're all there living next to each other.  Meanwhile so many (not all, of course) urban neighborhoods are still stuck in their old racial ways.  We've come a long way since Torie's day. A large part of town rapidly changing from white to black used to be commonplace here as blacks desperately fled their old wretched ghettos for greener pastures. Whitehaven, Frayser, Raleigh, Parkway Village, and Hickory Hill (the entire north and south sides of town, outside of the core city and originally "suburban") all shifted from primarily white to black from 1980-2000. In more recent years the newer suburbs in DeSoto county and East Shelby County have seen a steady influx of black people without mass hysteria. And it appears this is the case all over the country. It's quite refreshing.