In a way, it is voluntary segregation, blacks returning to city where they are the majority and rejecting integrated cities. Culturally, it makes perfect sense. They have roots here, family here, and even the food has soul. ;)Makes perfect sense to me. I grew up in a very distinct lifestyle from that of the rest of the country. I left at 15 in order to go to high school and live "like everybody else". To this day, despite the fact I left voluntarily, I am never more comfortable and relaxed than where the people speak "right", whether in English or my native language, where the food is somehow more familiar than that I've been eating for the last 50 years, where the social customs seem to be so "right" (and both human/humane compared to what I see on a daily basis now), where the clothing and hairstyles/cuts are so familiar it has drawn tears sometimes when I've gone to visit and momentarily had to remind myself that it was just a visit......I've often thought that on many levels I'd like to be living with or near "my people" again. It is, in fact, one of the reasons I've decided to relocate in the next few years: to be closer to an often much-maligned (by neighbors, media, just about anybody at one time or another) group of people. We all like something that makes us comfortable.
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