Some excerpts from the white flight chapter of Jeremy Carl's "The Unprotected Class": The "racial transformation" of urban neighborhoods in the 50s-80s was incredibly rapid, South Shore going from 96% white to 94% black in 30 years.
I did not know Rosa Parks was attacked in her own home in Detroit (by a black man).
"White flight resembles ethnic cleansing, but we blame the victims rather than the perpetrators."
Apparently, black city home value as percentage of white value follows the Baby Boom Pattern.
California voted to allow individual racial discrimination by homeowners when selling as a matter of property rights. This was, as is often the case, overturned by the Warren Court.
Rosedale mentioned. Mass racial revenge rapes of the elderly, sometimes covered up for with hate crime hoaxes.
Obama Administration's post-08 mortgage modifications essentially handed hundreds of billions to minorities.
AFFH: an Obama Admin policy to force cities everywhere in the country to build dense subsidized housing ("affordable") and actively recruit blacks to live there.
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Thread with excerpts from economics Nobelist Robert Fogel's "Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery" (1989). Note: the first thread was much longer, but X ate it. Much of the book will not be in this one.
The slave trade was not dying in America; instead imports continued to rise until it was banned in 1808. US became the largest reservoir of slaves in the New World because of high rates of natural increase. Slaves were best suited (vs free labor) to sugar and cotton.
Slaves entered the workforce as children and were economically profitable to their masters from ~9 to ~70 on average.
Why Brazil is Brazil: during the huge population boom of the second half of the 20th century, the lowest class decile had more than twice as many kids as the highest (7 vs 3 in the 1914 birth cohort, 5 vs 1.9 in the 1964 birth cohort).
"Women without educational achievement have more than 4 children, women with more than 12 years of schooling have only 1.
This is why I am not a fan of pro-natalist proposals of the form of "giant unconditional cash transfers." I think for the right value of giant (like Hanson's $200K) they would "work" to get TFRs above replacement, but at the cost of Brazilification, which defeats the purpose.
Japan's aging demographics are sadly causing labor shortages, leading to rising wages, reallocation of labor from low to high productivity firms, investment in automation, and 30-year-low youth unemployment. A tragedy that can only be averted with 20M migrants, ASAP.
One of the special interests for labor migration in many countries is low productivity firms trying to avoid going out of business. An example: textile factories in postwar Britain recruiting Pakistanis. They phrase this as "labor shortages," but we don't have to listen.
The same thing might actually bail China out of their extremely high youth unemployment, which is consistently around 15%. With 22% of the country still in low productivity agriculture too.
Quick thread on "white flight" in the Bronx. In 1950, the Bronx was over 90% white. Between 1970 and 1980, the absolute number of whites dropped by half, partially replaced not by blacks but by new immigrant minorities (Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Vietnamese, etc).
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Bronx was known for its tranquility, with children playing outside unaccompanied, bikes and scooters left unattended, and doors left ajar for fresh air (!).
This changed in the 60s/70s, when black and Hispanic residents entered the Bronx en masse, attracted by public housing and rent-controlled apartments. For some reason, crime and drug use exploded around the same time. Knives, mugging, shootings, drugs, gang warfare.
A few excerpts from the 1968 book "Danger in Washington," about 20 years experience in Washington DC public schools, serving as head of the system for decades. Had a much longer thread, but the site ate it. Author is a postwar liberal overtaken by the 60s Cultural Revolution.
The author, Carl Hansen, moved from Omaha, Nebraska to DC to join the public school system there. He was shocked and horrified by segregation in DC, which he regarded as evil, and made up his mind to do all he could to oppose it.
By 1954, pretty much all DC was desegregated except the schools. Basically the whole DC govt and school system was thus prepared and eager to comply when Brown v Board was decided.
If democracy means unlimited pensions and Pakistanis, of course it won't be popular. The prestige of democracy came from the fact that in the late 20th century democratic countries were world-historically rich, stable, powerful, and internally peaceful.
Fact of the matter is that most of the winning Cold War democratic bloc has been in very noticeable decline since 2008. In my view, mostly because of extremely destructive social/legal changes in the 60s that undermined the basis of our civilization.
The US has had actual economic growth thanks mostly to tech and fracking, but even worse social decay.