I grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida in the 1960's and my high school St. Petersburg High my senior year 1967-68 was 1200 students and about a 1/3 of the school or 400 students were African American. Our school wasn't the school for most blacks in St. Petersburg. Gibbs High School also had about 1200 students and only 7 students were white. I was suppose to go there until some boundary lines were changed 2 blocks from my house.
I lived on the southside of St. Pete and the area as a whole was predominately black. I just checked the stats and it hasn't changed much. St. Petersburg is 160,000 white, 60,000 black, 17,000 Hispanic, 8,000 Asian and 6,000 others. So if you had asked me when I was growing up if St. Petersburg was mostly white, I would of told you no. You can drive there now and see nothing but white people, it all depends on the part of the city. I find that African Americans who retire to Florida don't choose retirement communities where a minority would really stand out, but rather live among others of their own race and don't mind living in the cities because they came from city life. Of course there is the exception. In my CYV community we have 80 villas and 3 are owned by black families. In 2013 my High School had our 45th Reunion and our class of about 400, we had 80 students attend and only 1 was African American.
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