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Originally Posted by the urban politician
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I mean, SF proper has only 5% of its population being African American, and 15% Hispanic. It is an island of wealth, just a puny hypergentrified portion of its metropolitan area. The entire city of Chicago on the other hand is roughly 1/3 Hispanic, 1/3 black, and carries about 30% of the metropolitan area's population.
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So are you basically lumping all of SF's white and Asian people into one giant group of "hyper gentrifyers" or something?
You have a pretty simplistic view of San Francisco that seems to have been filtered through a bunch of stereotypes. San Francisco is not a "hypergentrified, island of wealth", as you claim (not yet, at least). Most residents here are middle class, and there is a sizable lower class as well (and 12% of the city lives under the poverty line, which is higher than it was in 2000, and almost equal to what it was in 1990). There are lots of poor Asian people and white people in San Francisco too, I don't know why you only singled out black and latino people when referring to the non-gentrification crowd. As for SF being a "puny" portion of the metropolitan area, it's no more puny than Boston or Washington DC in that regard (in fact, it's less so). And for the record, SF's latino population is growing, as it has been for the past 6 decades straight, just as SF's Asian population has been growing (while the black and white population have dropped pretty much non-stop for decades on end). Immigration from Asia and Latin America has been the largest contributor to SF's population growth over the past few decades, not gentrification. If it were not for immigration, SF would not have reached all-time high population levels in 2000 and 2010.
SF demographics:
white population:
1970: 511,186 (71.4%)
1980: 402,131 (59.2%)
1990: 388,341 (53.6%)
2000: 385,728 (49.7%) (338,909 white alone/43.6%)
2010: 390,387 (48.5%) (337,451 white alone/41.9%)
black population :
1970: 96,078 (13.4%)
1980: 86,190 (12.7%)
1990: 78,931 (10.9%)
2000: 60,515 (7.8%) (58,791 black alone/7.6%)
2010: 48,870 (6.1%) (46,781 black alone/5.8%)
asian population:
1970: 95,095 (13.3%)
1980: 149,269 (22.0%)
1990: 211,000 (29.1%)
2000: 239,565 (30.8%) (238,173 Asian alone/30.7%)
2010: 267,915 (33.3%) (265,700 Asian alone/33.0%)
latino of any race population:
1970: 69,633 (9.7%)
1980: 84,194 (12.4%)
1990: 96,640 (13.3%)
2000: 109,504 (14.1%)
2010: 121,774 (15.1%)
other population (this mostly includes latino people it seems):
1970: 10,415 (1.5%)
1980: 37,818 (5.6%)
1990: 42,333 (5.8%)
2000: 50,365 (6.5%)
2010: 53,021 (6.6%)
mixed race population:
2000: 33,255 (4.3%)
2010: 37,659 (4.7%)