From Fox D.C.:
There's been a baby boom in Washington, D.C.
Census figures show the number of children younger than 5 has grown by almost twenty percent to 39,000 over the past 3 years.
The number of children ages 5 to 13 rose 7 percent.
The biggest increases came from white infants and toddlers, which are up 34 percent.
That's a 34% increase in white babies in just three years in the nation's capital.
Now, all eyes back to what really matters: the insensitivity of the name of the Washington Redskins!
Now, all eyes back to what really matters: the insensitivity of the name of the Washington Redskins!
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Up 34% from what? From 200 to 268?
"That's a 34% increase in white babies in just three years in the nation's capital.
Now, all eyes back to what really matters: the insensitivity of the name of the Washington Redskins!"
You know, someone reading this blog for the first time, or even probably a long time reader, would really be confused by this. Such a complete non-sequitor. Don't things ever happen as a result of unintended consequences? Or is every voter on every issue playing a complex chess game where they're thinking three moves ahead, secretly working against their professed beliefs?
Whoever is head of the DC schools is about to get heralded as the kind of Ed reform as the DC schools magically get better.
Are Washington whites having 34% more babies, or are there just 34% more white people in Washington than a while ago. The former would obviously be more interesting than the latter.
Tangentially, do you think Democrats will put more effort behind their goal to make D.C. a state once the process of gentrification is complete?
I'm dubious that Democrats ever really wanted to make D.C. a state. It would've been a PR catastrophe for them. But a gentrified D.C. would actually be a thriving little city state, with two extra Dem senators to go with it.
Barring that, I'm wagering blue state Maryland will suddenly find itself very willing to take in a ~70% Euro/Asian D.C., something it was unwilling to do when D.C. was 80% black.
If retrocession is ever seriously considered, Democrats will probably try to give it to Virginia, in order to turn VA solid blue, despite the fact the land all came from Maryland.
Anonymous 4:05,
I'd say it's also Washingtonians having babies and NOT leaving the district afterwards because of gentrification.
Throw in people who have kids that are more comfortable moving in now (because of gentrification) and you could argue that its due to a bit of both.
Penny Al Arrabiata, I must ask, is it constitutional for the Federal Capital to be located in or consist of one of the 51 United States?
If there isn't some genuine fix or workaround to the DCPS, this sudden white baby boom in DC is only temporary.
Also...DC whites are just about the most Democrat voting whites around. Will their voting habits change once they realize they're having kids?
From what I see, there seems to be a white baby boom happening in Oakland right now as well. I see young whites pushing strollers everywhere now--sometimes in places most whites wouldn't have driven through 20 years ago.
Since Washington gets all its wealth from looting the rest of AMerican and the world those extra babies being born are really just a manifestation of the wealth transfer. So those babies are stolen every bit as much as if Gypsies stole American babies.
A couple of years ago, there was an article in the Washington Post about what all the bright young things who moved to DC would do once they paired up and had babies.
The article was about a couple of determined (white) families who doggedly attempted to raise kids in DC despite the lack of child-friendly amenities.
Really there are only two solutions. One, move to Northern Virginia, which is small children Nirvana (or certain parts of Maryland). Two, turn DC into the same.
JN
There are tons and tons of babies and prams in hipster Brooklyn neighborhoods.
Chocolate City is Dead! Long Live Vanillapolis!
"Penny Al Arrabiata, I must ask, is it constitutional for the Federal Capital to be located in or consist of one of the 51 United States?"
Since when has that ever mattered to Leftists?
The best answer to the "problem" of D.C. non-representation (assuming one thinks it's a problem; I don't) is to return most of it to Maryland, with just the essential stuff as part of the Capitol. The boundaries of D.C. have been changed before, giving ~30 square miles back to Virginia in the early 1800s, though the Court never ruled on the constitutionality of that.
The problem with retrocession is that it would leave a handful of people with a Constitutional entitlement to 3 electoral votes, thanks to the idiots who gave us the 23rd Amendment. Whether it would be considered a dead letter (Living Constitution!) or have to be explicitly repealed is an open question. My guess is that Democrats would rather have the two electoral votes than one extra congressman.
Republicans should propose this solution and eliminate the issue for good, and make Democrats look bad for opposing it.
Census figures show the number of children younger than 5 has grown by almost twenty percent to 39,000 over the past 3 years. The number of children ages 5 to 13 rose 7 percent. The biggest increases came from white infants and toddlers, which are up 34 percent. The rise is largely being attributed to new parents in their 30's and early 40's. There were fewer kids 14 and older during that same time span, suggesting that some parents are moving out of the city when their children reach high school.
These "statistics" don't make any sense.
"Census" data tends to lag by up to 10 years.
Even CDC birth data tends to lag by up to two or three years.
So it's difficult to imagine that the Census Bureau would already be releasing data for 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Right now, the Statistical Abstract lists data through calendar year 2009:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/population.html
Now the White Baby Boom generation peaked circa both sides of 1960, and then that generation had its maximum child-bearing years circa both sides of 1985:
SEE TABLE 11
So there are at least three obvious possibilities here:
1) We're starting to see the first of the white grandchildren of the White Baby Boomers, born to parents who were themselves born circa the Reagan Administration.
2) The "three years" in question are actually 2007, 2008, and 2009, and essentially we're still seeing a late Bush Administration imprint in the noise of the data.
3) The data really is for 2010, 2011, and 2012, and we are seeing the Koolaid-Drinking Hope! Forward! Caucasian True-Believers who think that they really can carve out for themselves an urban Shangri-La amongst the ferals [whereas the young white couples in the Bush Administration were more than happy to live in Alexandria or Fairfax or Mclean].
And I guess there is a fourth possibility, which none of us here would want to contemplate:
4) The GOP really is the natural home of White Gay Men, and the Bush Administration was so riddled with them that their presence had a demonstrably adverse impact on the demographics of school-aged children in D.C.
"These "statistics" don't make any sense. "Census" data tends to lag by up to 10 years."
The Bureau of the Census is collecting data all the time. It doesn't just pop into existence every 10 years, like some bureaucratic Brigadoon. This particular set of stats may be based on estimates, or they may have hard numbers to back it up.
The real explanation may either be the growing D.C. economy, thanks to Obama, or else D.C.'s increasing gentrification. These babies are being born to couples in their 30s and 40s, which is when you expect rich white couples to have kids.
Personality, I don't care if some whites want to live in big cities it drives some of the minorities away. There are bad old suburbs, take Los Angeles suburbs:Huntington Park, Maywood, and so forth have been Mexican for well over 20 years. So, why do better here get bend out of shape over some whites moving and having kids in DC I don't know its help DC dropped to about only 50 percent black.
Well, the Table shows how stupid some white people are they go to Georgia which has a minority poverty issue even if there are some nice suburban ares. Too many whites want to flee the cold climates and get large houses in Georgia which has more poverty issues than Minnesota. Georgia on Steve's free and reduce lunch program chart has 57 percent of the kids on free and reduce lunch programs while Minnesota only 33 percent. We need to stop telling people that high poverty southern states are great.
"That's a 34% increase in white babies in just three years in the nation's capital." - I think we all know who is responsible: Obama.
There are three racist anti-Native American professional sports clubs in America: The Atlanta Braves, the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins. How can these racist clubs survive in this PC-age? Simple, the three cities are all majority-black, so, of course, they CANNOT be racist!
The black majority of DC is hanging on by it's fingernails and will probably become the minority in 2013 or 2014. Within ten years, it is likely that DC will be majority white. So, the "Get out of racism free" card will be rescinded.
I fully expect that the Redskins will not be called that in a few years. Perhaps they can move to Detroit, where they will be immune from racism charges for a long, long time.
The Bureau of the Census is collecting data all the time.
But it takes YEARS to release it.
As I linked above, the current Statistical Abstract is stuck at 2009 data.
I.e. it's now fully three years after the decennial census of 2010, but they STILL haven't gotten around to incorporating its data into the Abstract.
In fact, we're dadgum near to November of 2013, and they still haven't even released the 2013 Abstract yet [the 2012 Abstract, with the aforementioned 2009 data, is still the "official" abstract on their website].
God only knows when they'll bother to release the 2013 Abstract with the 2010 data.
The commute to jobs in downtown DC from Virginia and Maryland has gotten so bad that living in DC is ever more attractive. The one thing holding back white families from staying is schools. In many neighborhoods in Northwest DC, the public schools have become fine through 5th grade. Where much work remains to be done is middle school and high school. It will take a critical mass of white and Asian parents sending their kids to 6th grade in DC to change things. Once that hill is crested, I expect DC to cascade rapidly in the direction of becoming a Portland-like whitopia.
You know, someone reading this blog for the first time, or even probably a long time reader, would really be confused by this. Such a complete non-sequitor. Don't things ever happen as a result of unintended consequences? Or is every voter on every issue playing a complex chess game where they're thinking three moves ahead, secretly working against their professed beliefs?
Non sequitur. And it's not really meant to be used by people who enter the middle of a conversation and haven't caught up.
The vampires are out-breeding their prey. Secret moves, schmecret moves.
I've lived in the D.C. area, and worked in D.C. since 1979. When I arrived I learned it was called "Chocolate City" and was 80% black. But the parts where people worked were safe and might as well have been white, and a wide strip of the northwest, was always predominantly white. However, major thoroughfares going into D.C. were dangerous. The change in the past 10 years was one I would never have imagined and it seemed to happen almost overnight. Suddenly I saw that 13th St. had white people walking around on it (2002); when I started taking the bus from the suburb to the city, down 13th or 14th Sts., I saw many, many whites getting off in neighborhoods that would have been no-gos only recently. And the people were mostly pretty young. I realized one day, that it is only a matter of time -- some of these people already had young kids in evidence -- that the notorious D.C. school system would mysteriously increase their scores, and we would read articles exclaiming over this fact and all will marvel --why!? how was it done!?
Because the real reason must never be mentioned.
Anon at 4pm:
Once that hill is crested, I expect DC to cascade rapidly in the direction of becoming a Portland-like whitopia.
I dunno. Its hard to see white hipsters finding anything hip about Anacostia. Plus, beyond Anacostia is Prince George's County, which is just a very slight step above Anacostia. I have a feeling that Anacostia is going to be the DC neighborhood for the black trash collectors and laborers and welfare moms.
"Suddenly I saw that 13th St. had white people walking around on it (2002);"
I wonder if this had anything to do with myriad federal agencies upping their security forces after 9/11? Blacks in DC have always whispered that whites have The Plan to push them out. I wonder if 9/11 gave DC whites the budget and firepower to gentrify the place?
From what I see, there seems to be a white baby boom happening in Oakland right now as well. I see young whites pushing strollers everywhere now--sometimes in places most whites wouldn't have driven through 20 years ago.
Oakland's black population is now under 30 percent, both Mexicans and Asians came in and blacks have declined which might explain white growth. I also noticed during the period where Mexicans dropped a little in California last year that in some counties whites made 30 percent of the birth rate while Hispanics 48 percent and in the past they were 50 percent. It could also be Arabs or Russians or Iranians under the white category moving into California and having kids.
Once that hill is crested, I expect DC to cascade rapidly in the direction of becoming a Portland-like whitopia.
Kinda doubt that but burbs near Portland are going Mexican since the Mexicans that come to Portland the burbs are cheaper.
I live 8 blocks from the White House in an area that 15 years ago would have been a no-go zone.
10 years ago the neighborhood was hot with gays (still is, but it's getting less so) and beginning to gentrify.
Then they built a Whole Foods literally around the block from me.
It has been key. It's a flag planted that says, "I claim this neighborhood in the name of white people."
And then young white couples started to come. When it was time to have their one (maybe two) children, they stay, because it is nice and the amenities of the city are good. And nice things are so much better than things that aren't nice.
My wife and I have three children and our fertility would be threatening to our neighbors if only they knew we were the one Republican family in the neighborhood.
"that the notorious D.C. school system would mysteriously increase their scores, and we would read articles exclaiming over this fact and all will marvel --why!? how was it done!?"
Steve's insight that this may be the result of 9/11 seems solid.
The D.C. school system has 44,000 students and a $1.2 billion budget. They spend over $27,000 per student, have over 4,000 teachers (an 11/1 pupil:teacher ratio) and a staff of 8,200. According to Wikipedia, only 16.5% of that money comes from federal sources, but somehow I have to think that's bullshit. Imagine what $27,000 per student would do if the students in those seats didn't come from dysfunctional homes.
"My wife and I have three children and our fertility would be threatening to our neighbors if only they knew we were the one Republican family in the neighborhood."
Doesn't the third kid pretty much give that away?
". I have a feeling that Anacostia is going to be the DC neighborhood for the black trash collectors and laborers and welfare moms."
You know, it's funny, but the trash collectors deserve respect. I know you probably didn't mean it, so I'm not getting on your case, just the general attitudes.
What a job--hanging onto the back of a smelly garbage truck in traffic, leaping down every few yards to dump dreadfr\ul cans of whatever...and you know what? When I've passed them on the sidewalk they often smile pleasantly and say good morning. They earn their money. I am often disturbed at the dismissive, even contemptuous way, that we often refer to manual workers (maybe because my dad was one, though very skilled in the skilled profession of refrigeration and pipe fitting). Now he was somewhat contemptuous of those he termed "pencil pushers", which would describe most of his offspring.
The welfare queens don't deserve any respect. Get off their butts and work and stop depending on people must work to support other peoples' children. But workers deserve respect.
"I wonder if this had anything to do with myriad federal agencies upping their security forces after 9/11? Blacks in DC have always whispered that whites have The Plan to push them out. I wonder if 9/11 gave DC whites the budget and firepower to gentrify the place?"
The myriad security forces I've noticed since 9/11 have mostly been in museums and shopping/food malls frequented by local office workers and tourists. Tourism ground-rocketed for several years after 9/11. I remember thinking it was all so ridiculous. Sorry--I am not a believer in the government conspiracy theories (I find mine elsewhere) and I just knew that rifling the purses of people who just wanted to see a Van Gogh exhibit was not the way to go.
The "terrorists" were in our midst already.
Concerning the D.C. metro. For a few highly irritating years we heard the fearsome voice of Janet Napolitano over the intercom assuring us that if our bags were searched it was all for a good cause. I remember thinking that if they ever tried to search the tote bag of a weary worker braving a possible bomb job, they'd hear about in the WaPo. I think they knew that, and to my knowledge never actually searched without warrented cause. Now I just wish they'd patrol the metro for trashers. From 1979 to recently, the D.C. metro was at least clean, no eating or drinking. And yes, plenty of blacks rode it. Lately it's been trashsd more and more, usually with fast food crap and wrappings. I suspect hispanics (whose presence on the subways has only become significant in the last 10 years) who seem unable to control their fast-food eating urges.
I have an African friend who tells me that in her country, they fine people $50 for trashing their subway, and put them in jail for a while.
That kind of security wouldn't bother me, just at the moment.
"You know, it's funny, but the trash collectors deserve respect."
Agreed. Also, at least here in middle-America, garbageman is one of the few jobs a white guy without a college degree can still get that pays well enough to support a family. It's not an easy job to get if you don't have a city politico in the family. Nepotism trumps the cheapness of illegals, at least so far.
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