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Article: Counties' Changing Faces; Migration Alters Prince George's, Calvert
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- The Washington Post
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- December 9, 1991
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Claude "Chuck" Sturgis, a 49-year-old Defense Department
employee, says he moved in the early 1970s from the town of Cheverly
in Prince George's County to the Shores of Calvert subdivision here
because of his opposition to court-ordered busing for integration.
When he and his family left Cheverly, they sold their home to a
black family, a process repeated over and over as Prince George's
evolved during the last two decades into a county with a 51 percent
black majority.
Sturgis is one among the thousands of whites who have migrated
since 1970 from Prince George's to Calvert County, a nearby
peninsula in Southern Maryland.
In dozens of interviews, the migrants cited a variety of reasons ...