Interesting, the few places in the world where Blacks are wealthier than whites

[briann]

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/11/10/the-very-few-places-with-no-black-white-income-gap

Kinda interesting, I can't help but notice that these are nearly all red counties.  I wonder why leftist utopias like Detroit and Phili arent in the list.. hmmm.

Stafford County, VA
Fayette County, Georgia
Fairfield County, Ohio
Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Kendall County, Illinois
Hardin County, Kentucky
Clayton County, Georgia

The income gap between black and white households has grown since 2000 and only worsened since the recession.

In 2015, the median income for black households was 59.5 percent of that for whites, or $36,544 to $61,394. That’s a greater gap than at the end of the recession in 2009, when black income was 61.2 percent of white income.

Yet, a tiny number of places exist where black household income is greater than that of whites. Of the 364 large U.S. counties whose populations are at least 5 percent black, there are seven, according to a Stateline analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey data for 2010-14.

Among them: Stafford County, Virginia, an exurban bedroom community of Washington, D.C., and home to military installations, where many black families find contract work or commute to government jobs in the nation’s capital.

The typical black household there earned an average of $105,628 from 2010 through 2014, the highest income of the seven counties. White households earned an average of $99,533 during that time. Washington, D.C., by contrast, had one of the biggest gaps in the nation — black household income was $40,829, little more than a third of the $115,109 for white households.

In Fayette County and Clayton County, Georgia, suburbs of Atlanta, black households made $83,396 and $41, 292 respectively compared to white household incomes of $80,500 and $40,231. In nearby Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, black households made $35,407 compared to whites’ $88,279 — or just 40 percent of what white households made.

And in Kendall County, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, black households made $96,146 compared to the $89,236 of whites. In Chicago’s Cook County the $34,935 black median household income was less than half that of whites.

Blacks’ higher income compared to whites in these exurban counties is an anomaly in a nation where income disparity has grown. Pay for blacks, relative to whites, has been shrinking since 2000, according to a study earlier this year by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Black men make 22 percent less than similarly qualified whites, and black women make 11.7 percent less than white women, the study found.

[Zelhar]

I am not surprised that all these counties are benefitting from an abundance of cushy federal government jobs with affirmative action policy the likely reason that blacks gets priority in landing these jobs.