Official US 2010 Census Results

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Is there a schedule anywhere? I want Washington data!

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Is there a schedule anywhere? I want Washington data!

http://2010.census.gov/news/press-kits/redistricting.html

That doesn't seem terribly informative.

Damnit, Gary! What's the point of having you in charge if you don't put WA first?

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Vermont's black population grew 105%? Interesting...

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So Chicago lost 17% of its black population? Wow. But statewide the decline was only 1%? Hmm, what suburbs did they move to? Looks like ~60,000 moved to suburban Cook, with Will County being the runner-up at a net gain of ~23k...

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So Chicago lost 17% of its black population? Wow. But statewide the decline was only 1%? Hmm, what suburbs did they move to? Looks like ~60,000 moved to suburban Cook, with Will County being the runner-up at a net gain of ~23k...

Wow, indeed. Just wow. What that suggests to me is that there has been considerable upward mobility in the black population in the last 10 years in Chicagoland. Am I wrong?  Or are inner city neighborhoods being gentrified, and the blacks pushed to undesirable suburbs, or back to the South? Or both?  As to the back to the South thing, there is this tendency for when Hispanics move in, the lower SES blacks move out. More should be written about that. But what happens when Hispanics are everywhere doing the grunt work?

By the way, how many Mexican restaurants did Chicago have when I arrived there in 1969 as a Freshman?  Yes you guessed it - one, way up on the northside just south of the Evanston border. Now Chicago has how many Mexicans? 700,000 or something?

Chicago demolished a ton of its public housing---50,000 units or something---so that probably played a large role in this... Still, 17% is hard to comprehend. Maybe Muon2 will give us an answer!

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Next week are:

• Washington

Hooray!

I'm so excited!

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New states are out!

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from what I'm seeing a lot of cities close to Detroit have big increases in black population

Not surprising. Blacks with the means have been fleeing urban ghettos all over the country.

The difference is that, like whites, blacks are fleeing from the entire state of Michigan, not just the urban ghettos there.  The only groups whose numbers significantly increased were Hispanics, non-Hispanic Asians and those of 2 or more races.   The non-Hispanic American Indian and non-Hispanic Pacific Islander populations also grew, but only very slightly.

Well, that may be true, but the state black population only appears to have decreased by 1%, so a lot must have simply moved elsewhere within the state, presumably to the suburbs...?