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Bay Area was mostly white and Asian anyway. My grandpa used to be an engineer at Xerox decades ago. My family helped settle San Francisco. Most of us left beca
by devmunchies 6y ago
Bay Area was mostly white and Asian anyway.
My grandpa used to be an engineer at Xerox decades ago. My family helped settle San Francisco. Most of us left because of gentrification in the other direction.
Whites are to blame if they gentrify a place but also to blame if they leave (white flight). No winning. 100% accountability.
BUT! Your original assumption is wrong anyway. it’s not mostly whites moving in this time. SV is a major world hub for tech. Lots of immigrants from India, Pakistan, China, Europe, South America.
- pvg 6y agowas mostly white and Asian anyway. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_San_Franc... "African Americans in San Francisco, California, comprised less than 6% of the city's total population in the 2010 census, down from 13.4% in 1970."
- devmunchies 6y agohttp://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty40.htm http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty4... 1940 was 95% white and 0.8% black. so in the 30 years from 1940 to 1970 it went from .08% to 13.4%. that's gentrification too, which was my point.
- pvg 6y agoThe 2nd Great Migration was not 'gentrification', is my point.