Denver. Aurora is pretty. Moderate hispanic growth in the suburbs.
Interesting show of gentrification in Near West Side and North Denver plus new housing in LoDo.
The historical black area is in East Denver, northeast of downtown expanding to the east. In the 1960s, supposed manipulation of school attendance zones around Colorado Blvd resulted in court-ordered integration of Denver Schools. 50 years later, the areas to the west of Colorado Blvd are slowly shifting to Hispanic and Anglo areas. The big pink area is the the former airport (the notches on the north end are where runways were extended into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal). The former airport site is being converted into a residential, commercial, industrial area. Because it is new construction, the housing is relative expensive but close to Downtown Denver.
The residential areas to the east of the old airport is Montbello which was annexed to Denver and developed in the 1960s and 1970s, which is fairly modest homes, and over time became at least plurality black, but now is becoming more Hispanic especially in the west.
The black population skipped over the airport and moved into Aurora where it has become more dispersed as it has become more middle class.
