The Great Migration? Many Blacks Returning To The South
NEW YORK — Nearly fifty years ago, Blacks retreated from the South to elude the implications of segregation. Ironically, today many Blacks, in New York especially, are migrating back to the South in search of economic refuge.
About 17 percent of African-Americans who moved to the south in the past decade came from New York, according to census data. Additionally, of the 44,474 people who left New York State in 2009, more
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