Liberal Utopia: Blacks Being Pushed Out of Austin by White, Progressive Hipsters...

Trey Sanchez
Truth Revolt
May 27, 2016

A devastating new report shows that African Americans are leaving the liberal utopia of Austin, Texas in droves in the middle of a population boom of white affluent hipsters.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis has found that there has been a rapid decline in the black population in Austin over the last 20 years:

Although Austin is one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States, its African American population has been in steady decline for nearly two decades. From 2000 to 2010 African Americans were the only racial group in Austin to experience an absolute numerical decline during a decade of otherwise remarkable growth in the city’s general population. Moreover, no other fast-growing major city experienced a decline in African Americans during that same decade.

Among the top complaint former black residents gave for their exodus was affordability. Next on the list, but of much less importance, was better schools, followed by accusations of racism.

The median home price in East Austin has tripled since 2011 from $125,000 to $375,000, according to the report. Almost every person polled said they would move back “home” to Austin if home prices weren’t so outrageous.

Here is what the report said about the history of East Austin:

Historically, the concentration of African American residents in East Austin was the result of state-sanctioned segregation. In 1928, city officials created a “Negro District” in which the majority of African Americans would eventually resettle because it was home to the only public school and other public services accessible to them under the racial rule of Jim Crow. Decades later these very neighborhoods would become prime targets of gentrification. Concentrated segregation followed by concentrated gentrification resulted in the massive displacement of African Americans from their historic communities.

Welcome to Austin, Texas: America’s liberal epicenter of skinny jeans, beards, lattes, and more and more white people.