Over the last ten years Chicago’s black population decreased by 150,000 while its white population decreased by 30,000, reports the Chicago Sun-Times:
The city’s overall black population has plunged since 2000. At the start of this century it was just over 1 million. Fifteen years later it was 840,188.
The white population also decreased in that time period, though not nearly as dramatically, falling from 907,166 to 874,876.
As a whole, the city went from about 2.9 million residents to 2.7 million in that time, data show.
Blacks fled crime and poverty on the city’s South and West sides. Many moved to nearby suburbs but some, like the white population of the Midwest, have moved south to Georgia, Texas, and Florida.
The city isn’t hollowed out yet but it’s working on it. Chicago’s test will be how it copes with a declining population and tax base while its expenses, many of them incurred when the city was larger, grow or remain the same. So far it has botched the test.
California, although still superficially “golden” in it’s external appearance, is on the conveyor belt, behind chicago, in collapsing under it’s insane policies and growing taxes.
The latest Dem idea is to have universal healthcare provided for “everyone” – citizen or not – with an estimated cost equal to our entire budget. How such an entitlement is paid for is seemingly irrelevant. My guess is they will look at taxes as the endless source of funding whatever our fickle, feckless Dem ruling body wants!