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Originally posted by Drdogface
Pat, I can't believe YOU said that..atta boy +1
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In California, 35% blacks own their own home. In North Carolina it's 87%, don't know about South Carolina, but I'd expect it to be similar to NC.
Anecdotally, about 12 or so years ago I went to the local Chevy dealership in Hayward, CA where I lived at the time to check out a pickup truck. The sales manager, a black man in his mid to late 50's, went with me and we struck up a conversation because he was a fellow southerner. He had arrived in the Bay area via the Navy long ago and remained. I asked him how he liked it all those years, and he said, "well, I'm retiring in about a year and taking my wife and returning to Alabama where I grew up." I aked why, and he says, "well, I just barely got into a house here, I have 20 acres there, and will be building a retirement home on it." I said I understand, perfectly, and that was in fact the seeds for my relocation plans to here.