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Originally Posted by jd3189
As a Black person, it is interesting to consider how "urban" got it's connotation. Before the Great Migrations, most of Black America was in the rural South. Now, with more African Americans living in the suburbs and moving back to the South, things are coming full circle. It may take a little bit longer, but Black culture may soon not be limited to the inner city within the American consciousness.
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i wonder if the "urban = black" code was more of a northern cities phenomenon, because blacks tended to
very heavily congregate in central cities up here during the great migration, with relatively few ending up in burbs/small towns/rural areas ?
like you said, in the south, black people have been living big cities, small towns, rural areas, and everywhere in between for ages, so maybe that coded language never really made much sense down there?