Must be the Southern Strategy
The KNS writes:
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 report released Thursday.
I should point out that I haven’t seen an increase but welcome folks.
October 31st, 2003 at 9:00 am
It must be Bush’s fault for driving them out of the north.
October 31st, 2003 at 11:15 am
Frankly, it’s probably just the weather. 🙂
October 31st, 2003 at 11:16 am
Actually, I’m not sure the numbers are very meaningful unless we can compare them to the overall (i.e., race-inspecific) migration numbers. Which we aren’t given.
October 31st, 2003 at 11:35 am
According to the article, the net increase in Tennessee isn’t very big. I imagine the migration is more pronounced in states like Georgia and Florida.