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- NATION, Page 27American NotesPOPULATIONAn Exodus Turns Around
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- In one of the most important demographic shifts in American
- history, hundreds of thousands of blacks fled the segregated
- South in search of jobs, freedom and dignity in the aftermath
- of World War II. Last week the Census Bureau confirmed that the
- black exodus has not only halted but been reversed. During the
- 1980s, the bureau found, the percentage of all African
- Americans who live in the South increased for the first time
- in the 20th century, from 52% to 56%.
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- The great return to Dixie is driven by motives much like
- those that lay behind the earlier migration from the region.
- It is fueled largely by better-educated men and women under 40
- who believe they can make a better life in the South. Explains
- Larry Long of the Census Bureau: "That's a profile of people
- who migrate for job opportunities."
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