Whites Now a Minority in Macon, Ga., as Educated & Highly Skilled Move to Suburban Areas

Whites are now a minority in Macon, Ga., as many educated and highly skilled whites & blacks leaving the city for suburban areas.

Whites are taking flight from Macon, Ga., in droves. According to the Sun Times, U.S. Census Bureau estimates suggest that one of every six whites living in Macon has left since 2000, essentially relegating the white community to a minority in Bibb County. Not to knock Macon, but as a black person, it doesn't exactly appeal to me to work, much less to live. From a purely economic standpoint, there is absolutely nothing to keep an educated and highly skillful person in Macon, except perhaps medical and government personnel, as well as some forms of entrepreneurship. Still, one has to look at the climbing crime rates in Macon to answer the question of the exodus of whites. Not a day goes by when one doesn't hear about some criminal activity jumping off there, with the NAACP mysteriously silent on the black-on-black crime in their community. Take the murder of seven year old Jalen Griffin by Vonn Gibbons Jr., 19, on Saturday, for example.

The latest estimates, from 2005-09 of the American Community Survey, suggest Macon lost about 5,700 white residents since the 2000 census. The city’s population overall dropped by about 4,000 people, to an estimated 97,255.

In the 2000 census, whites -- including white Hispanics -- made up 50.1 percent of Bibb County’s population. In the latest estimates, whites make up 46.5 percent, giving up their majority status. Blacks make up 49.7 percent. Source: Sun Times

The statistics are interesting, but scarcely surprising. In any country or state, the suburban areas hold the greatest promise for many and there is always an exodus to the cities and the suburbs. So while the Macon Telegraph bemoans whites leaving its city, the New York Daily News published a weepy commentary about "working class whites unraveling before our eyes."