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Originally Posted by brickell
Real thread title should read "Atlanta: the unofficial capital of American blacks"
Discounts the Jamaicans, Haitians, Guyanese, Africans etc that make up significantly larger numbers in places like NYC, Miami, LA.
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Agreed. For Caribbean blacks, of both the Latin and non-Latin variety, NYC and Miami figure far more heavily. Dominicans, a nominally black group, recently became NYC's largest Latino nationality, with some 750,000 calling the city home. Haitians are also a large group in both cities, and Jamaicans and Guyanese are still some of the largest net immigrant groups to NYC.
African blacks still gravitate towards Washington, DC, and increasingly NYC and Houston. In particular, the western parts of the Bronx are drawing large numbers of West African people from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and Gambia. You can get pretty good Ghanaian food near Yankee Stadium/Grand Concourse these days.
LA differs from these cities in that its black population is overwhelmingly African-American. There are decent-sized Ethiopian, Belizean and Jamaican communities, but this is nothing like NYC, where the black population is nearly 50/50 African-American and Caribbean.