Blacks Now Returning To South From All Other Regions

27 May 2004 - 6:00am

The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000.

The years 1995–2000 completed the long-term reversal of black Americans' historic out-migration from the South, reports a new survey of census data by William Frey. By the late 1990s, all three of the other regions were on balance losing black migrants to the South, according to the report.

Source: The Brookings Institution, October 24, 2005
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