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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, whatever the historical, social, and economic reasons for California's dwindling African American population, it makes it a very unhealthy place to raise children who have a realistic perspective of true diversity in this country.

In California you encounter more poverty, more social, economic, educational, professional, ethnic, and religious diversity, more Latin American diversity, more Asian American diversity, and more new immigrant diversity, yes, undoubtedly, but at a loss of the State's African American diversity.

I once read a comment to an article on this issue, posted by a self-identified African American, who said that California today was like a conglomeration sketch of every possible type of diversity, to which someone had taken an eraser to the African Americans in the picture.[/quote]

I've lived in CA for over 40 yrs - both north and south - LA, OC, Bay Area.  When I was younger, in LA, the majority of the kids in my HS were black.  Today, if I look at the makeup of that HS, it is majority Hispanic.  I don't know where blacks are moving to, but the hispanic population is taking over in that LA area.

In the Bay Area, PP had it right about how blacks don't have the wealth in that area.  There are hardly any blacks in the high tech industry, and housing in the Bay Area is really expensive.  For the most part, they are highly concentrated in the Oakland area and Hunter's Point in SF, or way further out in Vallejo or something.[/quote]

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