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[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by Klippenstein

This is interesting to see that most suburban counties gained Black population and Cook County outside of Chicago actually reported a gain in Black population of 4621 people.

According to the Sun-Times, IL as a whole lost significantly less Black people than the City of Chicago.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/8/...al-composition

Right, certainly a lot of people moved to the suburbs.

It's also hard to tell what fraction of the change in white population is due to people choosing to identify as "Other/Mixed" more.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Right, certainly a lot of people moved to the suburbs.

It's also hard to tell what fraction of the change in white population is due to people choosing to identify as "Other/Mixed" more.

In those 10 IL counties..
White population change: -350,707
Other population change: +150,660

Even if literally every single person part of the "other" group was part of these counties previously and previously identified as white, it wouldn't even come close to telling the story. Certain it can tell a little bit but case in point, there's an absolute minimum of a few hundred thousand white people who just entirely left the metro area.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by marothisu

there's an absolute minimum of a few hundred thousand white people who just entirely left the metro area.

i'd imagine that some of that loss will also be white deaths > white births, so it's not 100% people moving out of the metro area altogether.

but yes, no matter how you slice it, a shit-ton of white people left chicagoland (not exactly a revelation, but still interesting to see the actual numbers in the data).

it's interesting how black-flight is THE demographic challenge of the city proper (with all other groups in the city growing), but at the metro level, it's really white people who are the problem.

white people are always the fucking problem