This era is going to end. A lot of hard truths are so obvious, but to speak what’s on the tip of so many tongues puts one in the crosshairs of a fanatical religion, a theology without a God offering no chance of salvation or forgiveness. Ideologically, this religion seeks to create a hell on earth and to deviate even slightly in the state-mandated devotion to these insidiously inspired teachings is a heretical act.

So many great individuals have been consumed by the tumultuous onslaught wrought upon them for daring to notice the inconsistencies persistent with this religion, but nonetheless, to borrow a phrase from Jurassic Park, “nature finds a way.”

The proper sobriquet for this epoch has yet to be conceived, but it’s going to end. When a report can be published brandishing so many hilarious observations confirming the exact opposite point the published paper is trying to make, you realize vastly more individuals than you can comprehend have the same truths on the tips of their tongues.

Here’s a quick breakdown of pertinent facts surrounding Atlanta’s demographic situation over the past century:

In 1910, Atlanta was 66% white.

In 1950, Atlanta was 63% white.

In 1970, Atlanta was 49% white.

In 1990, Atlanta was 30% white.

In 2025, Atlanta is 38% white.

So what happened to cause such extreme White Flight from Atlanta? It’s quite easy to explain, but one becomes a heretic for voicing such incontestable realities because such direct line of communication is verboten in The Current Year:

• Black Crime
• Black Dysfunction
• Black Anti-Social Behavior
• Drop in property value as Black people moved into previously predominately White communities
• Decline in quality of schools, fear of safety for your children as racial demographics changed
• Cost of doing business increased (need for more security due to crime and theft at stores)
• Decrease in quality of public services and amenities (parks unsafe for families/public transportation experiences increasingly negative)
• Loss of social capital as previously White communities replaced with black neighbors
• Community tensions of inequality arises between racial groups and discernible income disparities become obvious

In 1990, Atlanta looked lost, destined to become another Detroit or Birmingham, Alabama, with an abandoned downtown of skyscrapers; a mausoleum of buildings built decades prior and standing as silent citadels above the ruins. Something funny happened in the subsequent 35 years, especially after the 1996 Olympics: White people started moving back and with their arrival came economic revitalization, reduced crime rates, a demand for improved public services and amenities (government/public jobs with the city of Atlanta was a bureaucracy of black public employees), a marked increase in property values and a quick diversification of neighborhoods once exclusively populated by blacks.

But that’s a bad thing. [Report: Atlanta among cities hardest hit by gentrification, Black displacement, Fox5Atlanta, May 15, 2025]:

The Brief

• • A new report from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of neighborhoods that flipped from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.
  • Gentrification led to the displacement of an estimated 22,000 Black residents in Atlanta, with neighborhoods like Old Fourth Ward, East Atlanta, and Kirkwood among the most affected.
  • Atlanta experienced the most intense gentrification in the U.S. from 2000 to 2012, driven by rising incomes, home values, and educational attainment in urban neighborhoods.

ATLANTA – The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) has released a new report titled Displaced By Design: Fifty Years of Gentrification and Black Cultural Displacement in U.S. Cities .

What they’re saying:

Over the last 50 years, 15% of urban neighborhoods have shown signs of gentrification. While still relatively uncommon, gentrification is on the rise. The number of gentrifying neighborhoods grew from 246 in the 1970s to 1,807 in the 2010s.

By the numbers:

Between 1980 and 2020, 523 majority-Black neighborhoods experienced gentrification. Of those, 155 went through full racial turnover—changing from majority-Black to majority-white. Another 121 became more racially diverse. In total, there are now about 261,000 fewer Black residents in formerly majority-Black, gentrifying neighborhoods. When all gentrifying areas are considered, that number could be closer to 500,000.

Click here for interactive map.

Cities most affected by racial turnover and Black displacement include Washington, D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Atlanta, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Atlanta’s Gentrification Impact

Local perspective:

New data from the NCRC shows Atlanta has the second-highest number of census tract flips—neighborhoods that changed from majority-Black to majority-white between 1980 and 2020.

Some of the Atlanta neighborhoods affected include:

• Old Fourth Ward
• East Atlanta
• Reynoldstown
• Kirkwood
• Edgewood
• Grant Park

Although the Old Fourth Ward did not lose as many Black residents as other neighborhoods, the racial shift there was more dramatic. The area saw a sharp rise in its white population after the Eastside Trail of the Beltline opened in 2012, attracting large new apartment complexes built on formerly vacant industrial land.

From 1980 to 2020, Atlanta lost about 22,000 Black residents—the fifth-highest loss among U.S. metro areas.

According to the report, Atlanta had the most intense gentrification in the country from 2000 to 2012. The NCRC measures gentrification by tracking increases in income levels, property values, and college-educated residents.

Washington, D.C., experienced the highest racial turnover overall. While cities like Los Angeles and Newark lost more majority-Black neighborhoods than Atlanta, many of those areas became majority-Hispanic or racially mixed rather than majority-white.

Pros and Cons of Gentrification

Dig deeper:

Here’s a look at the potential benefits and drawbacks of gentrification, a process that continues to reshape urban communities across the U.S.

Pros of Gentrification

1. Economic Revitalization

• Gentrification often brings new investment to neighborhoods, leading to improved infrastructure, increased business activity, and rising property values.

2. Reduced Crime Rates

• As investment increases and community resources improve, many areas see a decline in crime.

3. Improved Public Services and Amenities

• Revitalized neighborhoods may benefit from better schools, parks, transit, and healthcare services due to a higher tax base.

4. Increased Property Values

• Homeowners may benefit from increased equity and resale value.

5. Diversification of Neighborhoods

Some view gentrification as a way to promote racial and economic integration in historically segregated communities.

Cons of Gentrification

1. Displacement of Longtime Residents

• Rising rents and property taxes often force out lower-income residents and communities of color, leading to cultural displacement.

2. Loss of Cultural Identity

• Gentrification can erode the historical and cultural fabric of a neighborhood as new, wealthier residents reshape the community.

3. Widening Inequality

• Benefits often accrue to wealthier newcomers, while longtime residents may not see the same gains—or may suffer setbacks.

4. Increased Cost of Living

• As neighborhoods gentrify, the overall cost of living (groceries, services, retail) can rise, straining long-term residents.

5. Community Tensions

• Social friction can increase between new and existing residents due to differing expectations, norms, and priorities.

Hardest hit by Gentrification? That’s a headline? Did an asteroid strike or tornado touch down and cause extensive damage? Hardest hit denotes a negative action, but all that occurred was White individuals moving into an area of Atlanta populated primarily by black individuals…

The same areas being gentrified by White individuals were once replete with social capital, commerce and civic pride, and the restoration of this is attacked as some progenitor of black displacement? What about the White people who were displaced decades ago by the crime and dysfunction that arrived as the percentage of the black population increased in the communities/neighborhoods? Again, White Flight from this is deemed bad, and Gentrification (the returns of Whites) to same real estate is grounds for calling these areas “hardest hit” as if it were a natural disaster affecting the indigenous population and causing a distressing quality of life.

It’s not just Atlanta. This article about the negative consequences of White people moving back into major cities where black crime decades ago forced the creation and further perpetuation of suburban communities far from the city center could easily be about Charlotte, Memphis, New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Chicago, Rochester (NY), Birmingham (AL), Jackson (MS), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Baltimore, or Richmond (VA).

The restoration of Freedom of Association is all that matters, but to re-establish such a concept goes against our state-religion.

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White people returning to Atlanta has produced lower crime in areas where criminality once flourished and prevented civilization from flowering; property values have risen in areas where acquiring property was a far cheaper proposition in the absence of a White population; restaurants, shops, and commerce has returned, where once a food desert was found; and a demand for greater public services and civic improvement where before government jobs were nothing more than a form of racial socialism for the majority population.

A rising tide lifting all boats is a concept anathema in a multiracial Atlanta, which is but a microcosm for the entire nation post the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The people who see an immediate rise in their property value upon the arrival of Whites never stop to ask why their property valuations were so low when the communities had a paucity of the former.