Milwaukee Wisc. is Most Segregated U.S. City, and Other Quirky Census Facts
- Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:11pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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The number crunchers have been busy making heads and tails out of the the 2010 census figures–and some interesting figures have emerged.
Namely: Milwaukee is the most segregated U.S. city. People who live in Washington DC make wayyy more money than the rest of us suckers. And Detroit residents are itching to leave the Motor City.
So how segregated is Milwaukee? Here is a visual to help:
Milwaukee shares the infamous distinction of being one of America’s most segregated cities by such urban centers as New York, LA, Philly, and Detroit.
Here‘s the list of America’s top ten segregated cities:
1. Milwaukee
2. New York
3. Chicago
4. Detroit
5. Cleveland
6. Buffalo
7. St. Louis
8. Cincinnati
9. Philadelphia
10. Los Angeles
And while we’re talking about troubled American cities, the two U.S. city that experienced greatest rate of population decline were New Orleans and Detroit:
And the final stand out fact is this: when you look at average personal income by state, the numbers aren’t too surprising. States like Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey top the list, with average personal incomes in the $50k range. Meanwhile, Mississippi comes in last–and West Virginia and Idaho are near the bottom as well, with incomes in the 30k range.
But when you look at the list closer, you’ll see that the figure for the District of Columbia, our nation’s capitol, at the very bottom–and that’s not because average personal income there is lowest. On the contrary: DC blows all the states out of the water. Its average personal income is $71, 044. That‘s about 15k higher than Connecticut’s $56k, and $30k higher than the national average of about $40k.
There are other fun census facts over at Buzzfeed.





















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Backatya
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:13pmPresident Odumbo should immediately issue another executive order to start force busing African-American, Black, *****, Nigerians from Detroit to Milwaukee.
And what was wrong with segregation again? Yeah, just what we need, more social engineering and elitist BS mandated by the Obamaites!
Bring segregation back …. is Black-on-Black crime a form of social attrition?
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:43pmBlack racism is what is causing these peoples downfall. This is what happens to you when you denigrate a whole race by calling them racists and beasts and crackers and whitey. These people say we are white devils and beasts and we have heard them We have heard them self profess how they are loving and messianic and it does not hold true. We want to be as far away from these racists as possible. We see your hatred and ignorance and it is very ugly.
Report Post »Backatya
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:54amAnd what’s the next cheap-ass excuse, they‘re puttin’ somethang in da BBQ sauce? If the stereotype fits, wear it! Instead of calling whitey a racist at any opportunity it’s about time that BLACKS start calling a spade a spade.
It’s about time that BLACKS start blaming those BLACKS that are perpetuating the stereotypes in the first place. If the BLACK shoe fits, wear both of them. It’s a case of the BLACK pot calling the kettle BLACK ….. duh!
And it’s not necessarily a racial thang …..rather the case of too many BLACKS committing too many crimes while the racially righteous make too many excuses. Of course, you could always blame the BBQ sauce!
Report Post »UnreconstructedLibertarian
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:10pmHilarious.
Isn’t segregation supposed to be a uniquely southern phenomenon?
Report Post »1952
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:56pmWhy are the states with the highest personal incomes “blue states?” Does anyone out there have a rational explanation for this? I don’t understand it, myself. I’ve lived in both Mass and NH… I found them to be pretty much blue-collar states, and pretty patriotic to boot. There are so many contradictions here.. Anyone have a suggestion?
Report Post »Steel Awesome
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:36pmBecause most of the rich people in this country are liberals, not conservatives. Conservatives are more interested in clean living, whereas the libs are interested in money and material possessions.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:37pm@Psycodad;You ask me were beechwood lake was at didn`t see it till this morning before I went to work. Just outside of sabinsville Tioga PA .Hope this helps
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:36pmInteresting, the 9 of 10 of most segregated cities are in liberal (BLUE) state won by Obama and are loaded with unions.
Zero of the top ten were in the so called racial biased south which is predominately conservative (RED) states and have few unions.
Looks like where unions thrive the black man suffers. Too funny, Obama, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton supporting the racist unions while BSing black liberal Americans.
This is exactly why more and more blacks will be turning toward conservative leaders like West and Caine. They are realizing that they are being played.
Report Post »bkeely
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:28pmSo what a union thug no mater the color is still a thug.
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Chicago Ray
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:03pmGotta love those Union thugs up in Wisco huh? They sure spend a lot of time in Ol‘ Milwaukee I’m sure feeding the poor, building houses for the homeless, hard to do when you drive through the ghetto at a hundred miles an hour with the windows up …..
Report Post »P4cooler
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:57pmI live in Milwaukee. The blacks are on the north side and have the property taxes starting at $1100 or so. The Mexican population is on the south side across the via dock and their property taxes start at $2000 per year. The white crowds in the “name brand neighborhoods” are far south or far west and property taxes can easily top 3K on a small scrunchy home and a 2000 plus sq ft pad would be 4K and above. I bought my home on the north side. My family hates it but I never had any problems. I had no idea Milwaukee was the most segregated even though I lived here many years. I never noticed “segregation” until after Obama became president and divided our country into opposing parties.
Report Post »JoeAverage
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:57pmHaving lived near Milwaukee most of my life heres what happened. The blacks started to move into an area. With them came the crime, drugs, lack of property upkeep……………..so , what would you do if the black Tsunami comes into your neighborhood……try to rehab them? Or get out while the gettings good…………I think the inner city should just unionize.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:06pmWe got the same deal here in Chicago except times 10 in the opposite direction, and thats why they cancel out our suburban votes making it appear IL is liberal when it’s not
it’s very rural and red outside “CHEE cago mang” and now that there‘s about 20 ghetto ites and illegals per square foot in urban Crook County it’s practically lost since farmers in the south of the state are giving up.
Report Post »GetUpOnTheWheel
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:49pmThis is a map of Milwaukee. (Have to use your imagination)
Report Post »And this is a map of Milwaukee high on Progressive ideals.
heavyduty
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:48pmCould have Katrina been the cause of New Orleans shrinking so much? Just wondering. Can’t say anything about the other states.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:44pmThe reason for the high discrimination is nothing more than WELFARE! These cities, with Demoncratic administrations encourage this movement by promising a free ride using rent subsidies, food stamps, aid to dependant children, WIC and an innumerable host of other programs all intended, at first to be helpful, but now perverted into a system used to enslave the inner city populations and make them subserviant to the politician slavemasters. Milking “Donations” from these poor people using the fear that these “Benefits” may be cut off, funds and enriches the activities of the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Ferakhan and other“Activists”.
America will never end this discrimination until the inner city poor are taught self sufficiency and given the will to succeed on their own. I hope that someday, that will happen.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:54pm“America will never end this discrimination until the inner city poor are taught self sufficiency and given the will to succeed on their own. I hope that someday, that will happen.”
What, in your opinion, would be the best way to achieve that goal?
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:29pmSupport the Tea Party, and 9-12.
The truth has no agenda.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:33pmThat is awfully unspecific.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:35pmnonse
Let nature take its course and you will see folks get with it or die out. Hell the Bible says if you don‘t work you don’t eat. Its that simple.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:15pmHow about Daddy stays with the mother of the children, Democrats stop driving business out of the US so jobs are created here. Teachers teach Reading Writing, and Arithmetic. and stop this diversity crap. (I am not blaming teachers they are told what to teach). Union thugs stop creating a poor business climate. . All public sector unions should be dissolved., as the Taxpayer has no representation at the bargaining table.
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:25am@ NonSequitur
Don’t vote democrat. They are the ones who keep minorities down by telling them the Democrats are their only hope.They keep them blissfully ignorant about everything, and they tell them that republicans want to take everything away from them. I am amazed that the minorities haven’t figured out that the Democrats have NOT made their lives any better. They just keep stoking the flames of hate for anyone who earns a good living.
Report Post »Mr. Apathy
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:44pmAnd how much of this is by design with the government? Drive through the near South Side of Chicago and you are in the projects. I always wondered why our politicians would segregate and warehouse the poor in this area?
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:37pmNot nearly as segregated as Middle Earth.
“The Dwarves are for the Dwarves!”
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:46pmThe orc’s disagree, as do the Balrogs.
Report Post »Reminds me of a Rush tune …..
There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees………
BurntHills
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:35pmlast year they had other maps where it shows cities by race too, absolutely staggering some of it. sad, because we can remember Chicago as a great place,
Report Post »all the different ethnic European immigrant neighborhoods of clean brick bungalows and rowhouse yards and pretty flowers and super-cathedrals and church festivals to explore and sightsee: do not dare to drive thru any of the towns to sightsee the old family childhood homes now, all black crime-ridden ghettoes now. tried in 1990s, and were taking our families lives in our hands even back then.
chickenlittle
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:50pmMy wife is from Chicago and tried the reminiscent trip with our kids a couple years ago… same result as you describe. Actually, come to think of it, AZ from my standpoint had the same thing happen. I was there in the early 70‘s and don’t remember hardly any problems anywhere in the Phoenix area… not so now. We got out in 2005. Unless you can live in the “upscale” areas now… forget it. Ask Snow… I think he still lives in Sunnyslope (which was a very nice area in 1970).
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:35pmI hate to say it , but the study is right. When I moved into Milwaukee it was nicely mixed(1985) By the time I left in 1998 it was COMPLETELY segregated. Once we had a wacked out lefty police chief, it went downhill within months and never recovered. He got rid of our “Gang Squad” and it just got worse and worse. Right now…..they won’t even report if a wanted fugitive is white or black. Big problem if you my be in the area of a crime. Best to just leave. I live in Ozaukee county now, we have lots of non-whites,non-blacks, non-asians,non hispanics…. and thats fine. We don’t keep score, we just all get along fine.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:33pmAs a Near Cleveland resident”Home or the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame….”Thats The way We Like It A-Ha A-Ha……Blame The Dems For The Swirl Down The Bowl…Former County commishiner got charged With 8 counts Of Rackateering Today Thats The Way A-Ha
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:44pmCheck it out http://www.cleveland.com/countyincrisis/index.ssf/court_news/index.html
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:26pmWow lift up a rock when you smell something funny……
all of those article citations refer back and forth to a handful of people
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:28pmOne reason Washington DC’s wage score is so highis that the average Federal Worker makes far more per year average than any other workers in the country. All this because ot the use of out tax dollars. You, I and every other taxpayer in the country fund this lavish outpouring of largesse for the Federal workforce. The huge, bloated and largely ineffective bureaurocracies such as THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT, THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, AMTRAK all of which are “Models of efficency” sucking tax dollars with far more efficiency than producing the intended results. HEY TAXPAYERS, WAKE UP.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:27pmWhy does 4 out of ten articles on the Blaze center on race?
I thought you guy were trying to downplay your true feelings.
BetterDays
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:37pmWhy do 9 out of 10 doctors agree, your Thorazine shots aren’t working.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:43pm4 out of ten articles do not center on race. They all center on newsworthyness,lack of MSM coverage, and they revel in lefty wrongdoing and hypocracy. Look in the mirror. You are a troll,a lefty troll. If you want to deal in real facts we are happy to engage respectfully. But if all you want is a St. George payday, go somewhere else. Your malice is wearing thin. Although I personally feed on it, most here are normal and do not. Grow up or move on (.org).
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:43pmThis article is appropriate since race was one of the few items being measured by the census in 2010.
I’m wondering, however, doesn’t Milwaukee have a large middle eastern and Africal populations of fairly new immigrants? New immigrants tend to cluster together. I would think that that might contribute to the “most segregated” rating.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:47pmNow how did you get those arms free from that straight jacket long enough to type? Back to the padded room for you.
Report Post »Timothy1967
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:19pmHILLBILLYINNY, when I was a child in the 70′s my mother told be about the different parts of Milwaukee. She lived in Milwaukee since she was born in the 40′s. The Hispanic area on the map is known as “The Third Ward”. If you are from Mexico that is where you move to. A spanish speaking person could move there and fit right in. If you are not hispanic you don’t move to that area, period.
Report Post »The Original Grand Torino
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:29pmPlease provide statistics if you say 4 out of 10 articles on the Blaze deal with race. I don‘t think it’s even 1 out of 10!!
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 5:58amJust what I thought. If you can’t answer…change the subject and call them names.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:26pmOff subject,Just went to home page yahoo .Said they found metal books that may have cristcen history.thought you`d like to know
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:52pmThanks for the heads-up. Pretty interesting.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:20pmthanks that was an interesting read….
Report Post »lillianrose
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:23pm“DC blows all the states out of the water. Its average personal income is $71, 044″ -seems rather low- how accurate is this # when you have dem politicians who fail to report all there earnings?
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:40pmNot “rather low” when you consider what they deign to pay the hired help and the unreal amount of “unreported income” at the top end. Net worth of inhabitants might be a more realistic gradient for an area as skewed as the economy of DC.
Report Post »Timothy1967
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:20pmWell, I’ve lived in Milwaukee and the area around Milwaukee my whole live and I could have guessed this. Now the facts show it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Report Post »TambourineInjury
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:17pmLib Cities
Report Post »WIjoyzie
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:15pmExplains a lot… why the Milwaukee Public Schools test scores are in the toilet. I’ve lived in this lib-controlled state my entire life, the last 40 years in the lighter blue area next to the pink section. The quality of life has been on the descent for about 20 years now.
Dems sure have done a crummy job of “helping” the poor and eliminating poverty… and they are still promising so-called change. Fairly certain nothing will change in my lifetime… not with liberal Dems in control.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:17pmInteresting article Blaze. Considering Chicago is #3, I can see where the POTUS may be more inclined to see such a racial distinction.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:35pmPOTUS (only) see’ s racial distinction
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:40pmThe POTUS only sees what is expedient for the manipulation and advancement of his goals and ideals to be forced upon everyone else. Their window is closing rapidly, and we are seeing them in a more desperation each day…
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:48pmPOTUS (only) sees racial distinction
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:15pmMust be the beer
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:17pmSo, where are the race baiters demanding Milwaukee dissolve their city charter?
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:21pm@Gold Coin:
I was wondering exactly the same, and will they file the suits soon? Or file them at all? I guess it will depend on what is more politically expedient for them to do and who they can politically blackmail into making their ideals happen.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:24pmIt must be some confederate racist conspiracy. I know, lets just give a whole bunch of money in the form of welfare programs, food stamps, housing and other preferences based on color and that should fix the problem.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
338lapua
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:38pmThey write for the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.
Report Post »http://www.jsonline.com
Look up Eugene Kane, he is our race baiter in chief
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:42pmLooking at the list for where New Orlenes is shown as losing some 29i% of their population, it goes to show just what one big nature event (Katrina) can do to an area literally overnight.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 7:56pmbirds of a feather…
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:01pmFrom looking at the map, it seems like most all the hard working people are out in the country trying to earn money to pay their taxes, instead of hanging out downtown with their posse and causing trouble, while waiting on the next welfare check to arrive.
1952
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 8:57pmI’ve lived in both Mass and NH… I found them to be pretty much blue-collar states, and pretty patriotic to boot. There are so many contradictions here.. Anyone have a suggestion as to why the states with the highest personal incomes are “blue states?” Does anyone out there have a rational explanation for this? I don’t understand it, myself.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:26pmThese statistics will surely be used to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that caucasions are responsible for anything deemed as negative in these areas and there is plenty of that and that it is purely racism that has caused these low forms of living. There will not be anything negative attributed to African Americans as leading to this situation. Since the African Americans are fully innocent of all things leading to such poor and crime ridden lifestyles. Then it must be those horrible white devils that creates this situation. There you go. We all know until African Americans start taking responsibility for their loathsome ways and culture we as hard working Americans will always be slandered by these losers and dregs of society and our children will carry the claim these people charge us all with, Racism. Damn them to hell for the damage they have done to all of us. They are draging America to the gutter. What a wonderful country if not for all these haters in our midst. And yes I totally reject all their claims. I live in the deep south and I have never met a man who is so stupid as to hate someone for the color of their skin, Except blacks. Now there are your racists.
Stoic one
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:56pmCincinnati has taxed and regulated itself to the point everyone has fled to the burbs; this is reflected in the metropolis growth. Then these individual towns follow suit ( too much tax & reg) and they go fallow and wonder why; and raise taxes.
Report Post »Now the illustrious mayor of Cincinnati is PUSHING for a railed street that will run a total of five – six miles at a cost of $150,000,000. downtown — Univ of Cincinnati– the unbuilt casino. OH yea the city council is trying to balance their deficit with the projected tax funds of the unbuilt casino.
Stoic one
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 9:59pmrailed street car…
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 10:55pmI don’t get those maps…..if you’re area is 82% white, what are the other 18%? What % of the entire population is black? What about the parts on the map that show 50% black, what is the other 50%? Since blacks make up 12.3% of the total pupation, it would be impossible to have all areas of the state have a 50/50 split. So a perfectly equitable split would be areas that are pale blue entirely…..because 72% of the US population over all is white. The fact the certain races cluster or self segregate is bad because????? Love how they blame Walker turning down a high speed train that would cost $60 one way to ride, as the reason blacks can’t leave the city…….um I live on one of the biggest bus lines from the inner city to the burbs…..these buses run in front of my house all day and night. They go from the lakefront to the neighboring county and right out to a community in which I work, loaded with businesses……at the very most I have seen maybe 10 people on any one bus.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:01pmNot one of the top 10 segregated cities are remotely Republican??? Yeah go figure the “racist” Republicans would NEVER think of putting everyone in little boxes to be squashed individually…..
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:22pmAn overabundance of minorities in one area is the goal of Black Racists. Gotta give them credit… there isn’t a shortage of guilty-white-liberals who would sell their grandmother to make up for their civili rights era abuses. Thanks Robert Byrd.
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on March 30, 2011 at 11:41pm@ 13thImam
Unfortunately, we are finding out that teachers often teach whatever agrees with their personal political ideology. That “Stuff” video that Beck uncovered last year was being taught by some teachers without the approval or knowledge of their administrations or school boards. These teachers saw it on Utube and thought it had a great liberal message with which they could brainwash their students.
I went to the website of the progressive woman who made the video (which is really anti-capitalism and anti-American values), and she proudly brags that teachers just picked it off the Utube site and ran with it. In fact, she is encouraging more teachers to do the same thing.
So my point is that you cannot exonerate teachers anymore. No one is closely monitoring what they are saying in the classroom. It is up to parents to pay really close attention to what their children are being exposed to in school. Ask questions and keep a good dialog going with their kids so that they don’t get hoodwinked by progressive nonsense.
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 6:45amAren’t all these cities union? Now the black legislaters want to tell ******* where to live> WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 8:59amI say we have a MORITORIUM on the color blue.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 9:05am@1952.
Report Post »Not a scientific answer to your question, but an educated guess. With the exception of NH, VA and WY, all the states in the top ten have union membership above the national average with NY having the highest at about 25%. NH’s probably high because of all the people who live there, but work in Flatlandia; VA because of all the people in the northern burbs who work in DC; WY is an anomaly, but it could be because of all those CA stars who claim residency to avoid CA taxes.
Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 10:56amAmerica the Polarized!
Report Post »Kartisan
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 11:32amI notice that the incomes are not adjusted for the price of living.
Report Post »Who has more money one who makes 150k a year but with 120k in living expenditures: food, housing, gas, etc or the person who makes 50k a year but with 15k in living expenditures?
hud
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:56pmIntegration laws are for the south only, we lost the Uncivil War and they’ve stuck it too us ever since
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on March 31, 2011 at 3:54pmWhy don’t we see crime statistics based on race ? Yup you guessed it, to much black on white crime.
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