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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Blacks Moving to the South Connie Williams’ move to Greensboro from New Jersey two years ago was hardly an isolated statistic. Both North and South Carolina were among the top 10 “influx” states gaining in African American migration from 1995 to 2000, according to Brookings Institution scholar William H. Frey’s analysis of the 2000 U.S. Census. And cities such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles lost black residents in significant numbers for the first time in the 20th century. This is a reversal of the 40-year trend of “great migration” out of the South, which created the “urban” American city documented in Nicholas Lemann’s 1991 book “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.” According to the last census, the emigration from the North and California had doubled the 1990 census, which had tripled the 1980 numbers. Bottom line? From 1975 to 2000, the Northeast, Midwest and West lost 800,000 black residents to emigration; and of those, about 635,400 moved to the South. Aside from the anecdotal hunch of how many Jersey accents we hear at Costco on Saturday or Yankees caps we see at the Hoppers game on Sunday, there are a few hints at what the 2010 figures will reveal. In 2006-07 alone, according to the most recent “mobility figures” kept by the U.S. Census, 92,000 black Americans decided to leave the Northeast, the Midwest and the Western U.S. for the South. The South is luring Northerners of all stripes — black, white, Asian and Hispanic — for economic reasons that include lower housing costs and property taxes and more affordable college tuition. But for African Americans in particular, there is also a historical layer in the migration. The choice of cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte and Greensboro for well-educated African Americans such as N.C. A&T business professor Olenda Johnson is creating a new professional and middle class. As Johnson put it: “I felt God was calling me to be here, at a historically black university. Greensboro grew on me. Now, it feels like home.”
Poster Comment: This doesn't surprise me. One of my friends, a few years ago, was going to buy a house either in the valley in Albuquerque, or else in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. I told him throughout the world, and throughout history, whites live in the hills and blacks live in the valleys, so buy the house in the hills. He did, and recently all the houses in the valley has lost their value, but his condo in the mountains has not. Blacks prefer it sunnier and warmer; whites, in general, cooler and cloudier. I personally prefer it cooler and cloudier, and living in the hills. This has got to be genetic: my ancestry is about three-quarters Scots-Irish (and a lot of Scotland and Ireland is hilly, cloudy and cool) and the rest is mostly norther German (again, cloudy and cool). Bright sunlight really bothers me a lot, and in it I immediately find shelter under a tree. People are always going to self-segregate by groups.
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This will eventually put even the "Solid South" (which is already missing Virginia, North Carolina and Florida) at risk for the GOPers. But, all they have to do is find the right candidate, according to OxyRush. Good luck with that.
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