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Originally Posted by iheartthed
DC was 60% Black in the 2000 census, so dropping to 40% by 2020 was a pretty dramatic change in just two decades.
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Yeah, DC was nicknamed "Chocolate City" in the postwar decades. It was the blackest major U.S. city. I think it peaked around 70%+ maybe in the 70's and 80's?
I still remember places like H Street, U Street, Georgia Ave. and the like being almost 100% black neighborhoods. When I was in college in late 1990's/early 2000's, DC was almost totally black east of 16th Street and north of Logan Circle. Adams Morgan was considered edgy and fringe. 14th Street was really sad looking, with tons of vacant buildings. F Street downtown was a black shopping district, not that different from Woodward in Detroit during the same time period. Nowadays, there are white people living in almost every neighborhood west of the river.
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