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Transcript: Eye on America: Americans Choose to Live Segregated by Race
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- CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
- Article date:
- August 14, 2001
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BOB SCHIEFFER, CBS ANCHOR: "Eye on America" is taking a close-up
look this week at one of the most sensitive issues in the country,
the issue of race. In 2001, the United States is still very much
a divided nation. It is not just so-called white flight creating
the divisions. Take the case of the Atlanta, Georgia, where, according
to the latest census numbers, 61 percent of the population is black.
Correspondent Byron Pitts reports, more and more African-Americans
there prefer to live in black neighborhoods.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BYRON PITTS, CBS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): ...