Politically speaking, America's Republican stronghold is the deep South, where vast suburbs surrounding cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Richmond and Charlotte are decidedly white and often politically conservative.
But population trends -- revealed in the last U.S. census -- show blacks and Latinos moving in to southern suburbs in high numbers, which threaten the notion of Republicans enjoying a safe harbor in southern states for much longer.
Census estimates show a 58 percent increase in the number of blacks who moved to the suburbs, compared to 41 percent for the rest of the country. This increase is up 52 percent from 2000.
Unless there is a large voting shift in black folks, who vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, the population shift could prove to be a bonanza for the Democratic party with an infusion of Democratic votes in traditionally Republican-leaning districts.
The news isn't much better for the Republican party when it comes to Hispanics, who also tend to vote more consistently for Democratic candidates.
Hispanics represented a larger portion of southern population gains than blacks did in 13 of the 16 southern states in the last 10 years, according to the census. Hispanics were a larger portion in just seven states from 1990 to 2000.
So as greater racial and ethnic integration come to America's South, greater numbers of black and brown faces in southern cities and suburbs could bring an end to a longtime GOP-voting advantage and shift the nation's political landscape.


Comments: (17)
Add a comment
By: kirok on 3/18/2011 5:27PM
Actually your facts are skewed. Blacks are moving more towards the GOP, because the Dems have failed everybody miserably.
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: Deut818 on 3/19/2011 12:20PM
@kirok.. your comment might be on to something.. but the only way to tell what you say is true.. is when afri-americans register to vote after they've moved to the GOP surburbs.. either switch to GOP (mostly likely) or remain Democract not likely...or better yet register as an independent voter if the voter jurisdiction allows..
Furthermore..
As far as the black race in America being extinct.. most likely not.. but will we matter post civil rights movement as known? Probably not.
Report This
By: rlmccoy2 on 3/20/2011 5:51PM
Kirok,
I most say that your comments are totally misleading because I am professional BLACK MALE who lives in the Suburbs, GOP Regions of the south. Many of the Black folks who lives around me are democrates or independance. But guess what those who are indepenance are VERY UPSET with the way the republican party are dismanentlying equal rights for people and destorying the middle class for the ultra rich people. Many of us have the income because of what our people achieved as to equal rights. Sorry but unless you are in the south and know what is going on here then you really do not know about us.
Report This
By: Michele on 3/20/2011 6:27PM
No my friend, you may be leaning that way but most people I know aren't. We are all well educated and informed people. There is always a lesser evil that must be chosen when you are dealing in politics. The Dems are the lesser of the evils. At least the Dems try to look out for all people. That includes the middle class and the poor. The GOP wants to send us back to the days of the 1950's. I'm sorry but I'm not for that. Yes, there is plenty wrong with our country and the Democratic Party but I'm not foolish enough to vote for people who don't care about me or my community. Thank you very much.
Report This
By: michael lofton on 3/18/2011 4:31PM
"Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs, GOP Regions to Become Democratic"
....illegal immigrants from around the world are not moving into any U.S. born decendent of Slave Black community for the benefit of any law abiding U.S. born Black community.
....so much so, that the U.S. born Black community is kicking itself to the curb and beyond to the point of self extinction!
...and the U.S. born Black community, inept spineless treasonous elected Black leadership, a "sellout and sleazy Black middleclass", and/or more times than not inept Black voting electorate, being the weakest link, have allowed illegal immigrants from Somalia, Nigeria, Mexico, Haiti, the West Indies, North Africa, Kenya, the Hondoras, El Salvador to take control of South Central Los Angeles, Detroit, Compton, Inglewood, New Orleans, Atlanta, etc., etc., and/or many other neighborhoods formerly or presently predominated by U.S. born Black people.
http://onetime.blogtownhall.com/page2
Thank You, Fontana City Councilwoman Acquanetta Warren, for Having Backbone to Do Right by the People!
You are definitely a rare breed. Unlike the position you take, and the courage you’ve shown to do the right thing, far too often a misguided elected Black leadership are anti AB 1070, incompetent, spineless, and un-American.
In contrast, President Barack Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus, Assemblywoman Karen Bass, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, and/or other no good elected Black leaders, support amnesty for and bend over backwards to serve illegal/undocumented immigrants, at the expense law abiding U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. These misguided elected officials oppose the best interests of the Black community, the Lofton Family, the Shaw family, other Black families, disregard the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, their State Constitutions, for his, her or their own self serving interests….and not the public’s best interest.
**************************************************
Fontana City Council Public Meeting, May 26, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2xQmpd8YMA&feature=player_embedded
“Good evening Mayor and city council members. My name is Gil Navarro and I’m an elected official just like yourself. ….I’m a member of San Bernardino County Board of Education, AREA “ D”, but I’m here representing myself.
“My concern is with your City Councilwoman Aquanetta Warren, about the paper that she wrote that was published by the ‘Black Voice News’ regarding her applauding the Arizona crackdown . Acquanetta Warren Republican or Racism….that is the way I interpret it. And Acquanetta, I don’t understand what you have with your own Black race, because you’ll never be a white republican, they will never accept you…… …So you should not try to use that, the fact that Arizona has a law against immigrants. In my opinion, Dr. Martha Luther King,
.....Mrs. Warren, would roll over in his grave if he knew that you did this. And here you are blaming, or linking illegal immigration with Black unemployment and violence. You’re telling me an immigrant that came to this country is causing a Black man to rape a white woman. A Black man that robs a liquor store you’re blaming the immigrants for that. The fact that the highest rate of suspension, expulsion, dropout rate in this county are African Americans students….You’re blaming immigrants for that.....
I don’t know where you are coming from but obviously what you’re trying to create is Black against Latinos. That is racism. In fact, this is the kind of stuff they talked about the Blacks in the South. It was terrible about what happened to the Black race. You know a lot of people say to us Latinos, go back to where we came from…but we haven’t left. You know, l look at history. Southern California used to be a part of Mexico. We are back. …and you know I’ll tell you about Arizona, I know you can’t do anything about it here in Fontana, but if Pancho Villa was here and alive today he would capture Arizona and put them out of their misery. I don’t know if you’re a Christian woman, but I don’t think that the Bible that promotes Jesus Christ said love thy white neighbor only.” by Gil Navarro has proven himself to be a bigot by such comments.
vs.
http://ca-fontana.civicplus.com/directory.aspx?EID=3
......the truth as spoken by Fontana City Councilwoman Acquanetta Warren, and/or the majority of law abiding citizens and legal immigrants also know, believe, and support.
“This issue is a security issue. We need to protect our borders. We must safeguard against terrorists, criminals and drug pushers. And yes, about jobs. You bet it is about jobs and taxes. The state is out of money and taxpayers are tired. They should not be on the hook to pay for those who are here illegally. And you get here illegally; you need to learn how to speak English. You need to understand the culture in America. I don’t begrudge anyone for trying to have a better life, but if I do something illegally they call me on it and I’ve dealt with it.
The race card, is like beating a dog that you shouldn’t be touching, because it’s not about race, it’s about ourselves, it’s about our children, it’s about the public, the public that we are led to serve. We need to be clear that…. that article is a comment that I made about a study out of Louisiana State University, where I myself have experienced where I grew up in South Central LA, the low skill jobs, and other jobs, in that area, that have been taken by illegal immigrants.
We need the Federal level to step up, and start securing our borders, and start an honest dialogue, and begin to make the right decisions that affect all of us.....
Until that happens you‘re going to have all this finger pointing. But I feel the way that I feel and I’m not going to change and if anything I’m going to work toward making sure that we secure our borders, that we are safe.
....and that gentleman that came up and talked about Arizona.....
Unless you live down under the terror that those people are living under, stop It. Figure it out.” by Acquanetta Warren, Fontana City Councilwoman
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: michael lofton on 3/18/2011 5:52PM
It is certain that illegal immigrants for North Africa, who set up shop in Detroit, Baltimore, and/or other communities predominated by U.S. born Black are not in the business of promoting the general well being of U.S. born Black people!
....So much for being muslim....
....where in North Africa, and/or many other parts of Africa, Black Africans have been enslaved for centuries, enslaved even today, and women are treated even worse!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons_why_sharia_is.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/article_c694ad1e-5029-11e0-a72e-0017a4a78c22.html
Sharia Law: …and it makes no sense that so many U.S. born Blacks have adopted the Muslim faith, when women are treated like cattle, maimed, killed, abused, tortured for sport,
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/egypt/TNV5LR6A2JLI6CPJR
“I have been watching Arab videos lately, but shockingly have noticed something that is missing....there are NO black people. All the female singers are light-skin Arabs, and the only singers that are dark are from Sudan, but they are really light Sudanese.
In the west, blacks are in entertainment in the mainstream. I was wondering since many Arabs are "black" or dark-skinned, why are they denied the right to show-case their talents and beauty? From my understanding, white Arabs consider black people ugly or unhuman...yet they are muslims also?
I feel that it's very racist ideology.Most Arabs I know pretend their is NO racism in their culture, and that they are "muslims" hence no such thing exists, yet I see it daily. I even see it at the mosque, where the Arabs will give lectures in Arabic only to exclude non-Arabic speakers from understanding. Or they don't give salaams to black people but will to anyone who is light-skinned. “
“Well arabs are even racist within themselves so they must be horrible towards blacks for example in saudi arabia they call black people " 3abd " which means slave even if that black person posses the highest qualifications you could imagine
There is even racism among arabs themselves, for instance also in saudi arabia they call egyptian saudis " toroosh el ba7r " or rubbish of the sea, these are egyptians who immigrated to saudi arabia from more than 150 years settling in mecca and madina and today they all carry the saudi citizenship
although these egyptians speak arabic , practise islam and have similar traditions as the locals , in addition being arabs this was not enough to keep them away from the racism done by their fellow arabs there on them .
For a fact arabs hate egyptians even more than the jews and muslims hate all non muslims , its seems that hate is part of their religion or culture.”
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: michael lofton on 3/18/2011 7:49PM
"Actually your facts are skewed. Blacks are moving more towards the GOP, because the Dems have failed everybody miserably."
http://againstallodds.blogtownhall.com/page2
http://deadwiler.blogtownhall.com/page3
http://ceyseau.net/files/No_to_Supporting_Misfits.pdf
....it is refreshing to hear that more and more U.S. blacks are not bowing down to the Democratic Party as so many have been doing in the past or present!
....this is true, and time and time again the Democratic Party has proven itself to be the premier Party that promotes "Jim Crow" law, meaning the Democratic Party continues to be the "Party of Slavery".
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: Gichaya on 3/19/2011 3:58PM
My goodness white people are so dayuuuum inferior. You will never have to be concerned about the extinction of the black man, because that's simply not going to happen. White women are spitting out babies with black men and men of other races at warp speed, so your concern is misguided.
If this continues(and it will)by 2050 the birth of caucasians will not exist. Your women want to have sex with a man that has more than four inches to work with. Some of them do it then feel guilty and cry rape. Even white nuns live about being raped by black men. Years of dealing with the white man has proven blacks to be survivors. All it proved for white is that you people are lower than whale sh$t at the bottom of the ocean
Report This
By: bob on 3/19/2011 2:54PM
@Gichaya You just can't get your mind off the pole can you! You must be some ugly ho! Can't get a black man and secretly want a white man with four inches. When you look like princess fiona at night you can forget about a man.
Reply to this Comment | Report This
By: Gichaya on 3/19/2011 4:04PM
Hahahah, sorry to have to disappoint you Bob, but I'm drop dead gorgeous, 5'8, 163 pounds, size 10. But you was right about one thing....I love sex. It's not my fault that you guys are short in the pants, just like it's not black men's fault that they're not. Penis envy is probably the real reason you're here at BV. Get over it. If you weren't born with it buy it like the white women buy their butts and lips, or like black women buy hair. :-) I'm not mad at cha
Report This