Follow the Line: How Redlining Separated Black and White New Orleans

[@dhowto3005]

This excellent reporting by an excellent reporter! This reporter needs a raise! Thanks to all the experts that were interviewed who contributed to this report.

[@johnnyboyvan]

Fascinating. Sadly the rich have equity and will use it to purchase rental properties in poorer areas.

[@GeedyP]

I wish you would have added New Orleans east to this story what happen but it was nice though

[@IslenoGutierrez]

The part about white flight is very real. 70% of New Orleans was white in 1950, the vast majority of which were native-born New Orleanians. Just before Katrina in 2005, nearly 70% of New Orleans was black. A complete reversal of demographics in just 50 years, completely flipped. That’s outrageous. Something they didn’t touch on in this video too, black migration into the city is also very real as many blacks came from outside of the city and outside of the New Orleans area and moved into New Orleans largely after 1968 when blacks were allowed to move into white neighborhoods. This contributed heavily to the cause of the white flight since whites were interested in retaining the white demographic of most of the neighborhoods in New Orleans, the same how blacks in New Orleans today want to retain the black demographic in those same neighborhoods that were previously white neighborhoods decades ago. Now gentrification is setting in and more and more whites are moving into the city as time goes on, but this time they are not native-born New Orleanians like before but are from outside of the New Orleans area and often from other states. New Orleans is moving toward a white majority again and it will intensify in the coming years when many native-born whites in the suburbs feel the city is “white enough again” to move back into in large numbers. There is also another phenomenon happening at the same time where blacks in New Orleans are moving to the surrounding suburbs in much the same way New Orleans whites did decades ago.

[@macmedic892]

New Orleans has had two Republican mayors, both during Reconstruction. The last one left office 150 years ago. If you want different leadership, you have to vote differently.

[@Tomdelongpenis]

It's almost as if the republican party today is very different from 150 years ago but that require knowledge of history as opposed to taking any chance to go democrats bad

[@rtgolite]

I was unaware of how these lines work and were drawn. This is a very good strategy to use when investing in property. Never used it before but now I will not only look at flood maps I'll look at these maps as well. Banks and insurance companies do so if they charge more then you must charge more. If you know that neighborhood can't afford to pay their rent then naturally don't invest there. Then abandon buildings and homes are 5%. Crime and fires because homeless are trying to keep warm. Insurance goes up more people leave . Did I mention what color these people are? This has nothing to do with color has to do with behavior. Money talks and the rest of that walks.

[@Bigez4sheezy]

The proof can be glaring them in the eye, and they'll still say it's bs. So, I guess all of the people in the video made all of this up? I didn't need to see this to know what happened. I can see the effects with my own two eyes.

[@kaymillerfromTX]

As a Houstonian, we should have let yall figure Katrina out and kept our doors shut. 🤷🏿‍♂️ truly a helpless bunch of ninjas.

[@Bigez4sheezy]

​@kaymillerfromTX yeah, I would have loved to see yall try that.

[@cadillaccap5482]

@@kaymillerfromTXyeah as if tx was always a good place 5th ward better know as ( the bloody Nickel ) lmao

[@kaymillerfromTX]

Ruled unconstitutional in 1927. CRYING ABOUT IT IN 2023 🤦🏿‍♂️ Embarrassing.

[@cadillaccap5482]

The 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed racially motivated redlining being uneducated and making comments about things that can be simply googled is embarrassing 😮

[@dreamdeep2537]

Crime seems to follow single parent neighborhoods. Huh

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

Blame everyone else. The forever victim.

[@i.m.6758]

Is this true or not?

[@cadillaccap5482]

Yeah said like the people whom call the “ pill and Fentanyl “ a crisis rite now that a particular color of people are being more effective by it now drug users are health care problem and not being criminalized as too the 1980’s and 1990’s “ war on drugs “ lol

[@Swmajjackson1268]

What do this mean?

[@clon662b3]

😂Yall mad to all the truth coming out,why do you pussy’s get so mad when when history is shown and told??

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

Martin Luther King Jr. Said desegregation was racist.

[@cadillaccap5482]

He also said his dream was an idea of a young man and he fears he lead his people into a burning building

[@aubsta1]

He was wrong

[@paulnguyen2227]

Told yall but nobody wants to listen

[@johnstewart6920]

Fatherlessness

[@rtgolite]

In the 30s and 40s it was more likely for blacks to have a 2 parent home than whites . In other words there were more white people with one parent than there were blacks with one parent.

[@bayougtr]

More need for hand holding🤮

[@cadillaccap5482]

This aged well seeing that people crying over a billionaire who lost a vote and tried to over throw a government because he was a lil upset lol

[@deborrehdunmore3489]

Agent orange in Gert town uptown New Orleans they close down the place close it down somewhere in the 80s or the 70s look into that please lots of people died of cancer in that neighborhood

[@Moderatoriiihhh]

this is still going on, can't get homeowners insurance in certain areas

[@ckinhimdaily]

This was depicted well on the drama series Lovecraft Country.