Blacks Settling in South at Record Pace

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Fri Oct-31-03 09:58 AM
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Blacks Settling in South at Record Pace

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WASHINGTON - A strong economy and vastly improved race relations are luring record numbers of black Americans to the South, a region that many deserted early in the 20th century.

More than 680,000 blacks 5 and older moved to the South from another region between 1995 and 2000, outnumbering the 333,000 who moved away by a better than 2-to-1 margin, according to a Census Bureau (news - web sites) report released Thursday.

The report found no other region of the country had an increase in black migration, a reverse of the trend seen in the first half of the century, when many blacks left the South for the industrial Northeast and Midwest.

This is good news for a number of reasons. It indicates that racism in the South is declining. It also will change the demographic towards Democrats since minorities identify with our party more.

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Fri Oct-31-03 10:01 AM
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1. Union member retirees are also moving to south, southwest.

Which is great for Democrats too.

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Fri Oct-31-03 10:02 AM
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2. Welcome HOME, Cousins!

What do y'all say we ALL sit down to supper?

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Fri Oct-31-03 10:13 AM
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3. The balance is starting to shift in the south.

In Alabama, the heart of the south, either the guvernotorial(sp) or the senatorial race was so close that a recall had to be done. My family still lives there and told me about it a year ago. This didn't get much attention but it tells me that democrats are still alive and well in Bama. I say welcome to the new south.

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MrPrax

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Fri Oct-31-03 12:17 PM
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4. Does it?

"It indicates that racism in the South is declining."
Does it?
Can you really draw this conclusion?
Could just mean the desperation that moved african-americans north in the 50s and 60s is now moving them south in the 90s and 00s?

Just a thought

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Fri Oct-31-03 12:31 PM
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5. I think the same can be said for every state in the U.S.

Folks trend to move for various reasons. Unemployment, racial harassment, just to name a few.

If true I hope they can get Zell Miller out of office in Georgia.

What is a Georgia Baptist?

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