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Article: Black migration in reverse: African Americans are leaving major cities for opportunities in the South.(FACTS & FIGURES)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Decades of vacating Dixie are reversing, reports The Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan research organization. According to The New Great Migration Black American's Return to the South, 1965-2000 during the Fatter part of the '90s, the South was the only region in the U.S. that saw an increase in black residents.
In fact, the study shows that over the last three decades, the South has become a "magnet" for black Americans, particularly college-educated professionals.
In the 20th century, there was an exodus of blacks from the South, while the Northeast, Midwest, and West saw an increase in African Americans during the Great Migration.
The ...