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Originally Posted by Docere
Re: Minneapolis - I said that it's a smaller Black center, not a smaller Black immigrant center. Black immigrants and their children make up a very large percentage of the overall Black population there. There are probably more African immigrants in the DC area than in Minneapolis-St. Paul, but it's a small percentage of the overall Black population, given that is much, much larger (1.5 million vs. maybe around 250,000 or so).
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In the few months that I spent traveling to Minneapolis last year, it seemed like most black people there were Somali descendants, or recent descendants of other parts of Africa.