Undertow
07-21-2008, 08:31 AM
Looks like my home State is in blue. Not surprising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
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Demographic changes
The Great Migration of African-Americans created the first large, urban black communities in the North. It is conservatively estimated that 400,000 left the South during the two-year period of1916-1918 to take advantage of a labor shortage created in the wake of the First World War.[4] The 20th century cultures of many of the United States' modern cities were forged in this period.For instance, in 1910, the African American population of Detroit was 6,000, by the start of the Great Depression in 1929, this figure had risen to 120,000. Other cities, such as Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, also experienced surges in their African-American populations. Up until WWI, they had also been receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Major industrial cities were places of numerous languages, an influx of peoples from mostly rural cultures, and staggeringly rapid change in the early decades of the 20th century.
The rapid scale of change could be seen also in Chicago. In 1900 the city had a total population of 1,698,575.[5] By 1920 Chicago had increased by more than 1 million residents. Its population of 2,701,705 included more than 1,000,000 Catholics; 800,000 foreign-born immigrants; 125,000 Jews; and 110,000 African Americans. It had fifteen breweries and 20,000 speakeasies to keep things lively during Prohibition.[6] As did some other cities, Chicago received the most African American migrants in the second wave of the Great Migration; from 1940-1960, the African American population in the city grew from 278,000 to 813,000. The South Side of Chicago was considered the black capital of America.[7]
In the South, the departure of hundreds of thousands of African Americans caused the black percentage of the population in most Southern states to decrease. In Mississippi and South Carolina, for example, blacks decreased from about 60% of the population in 1930 to about 35% by 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
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Demographic changes
The Great Migration of African-Americans created the first large, urban black communities in the North. It is conservatively estimated that 400,000 left the South during the two-year period of1916-1918 to take advantage of a labor shortage created in the wake of the First World War.[4] The 20th century cultures of many of the United States' modern cities were forged in this period.For instance, in 1910, the African American population of Detroit was 6,000, by the start of the Great Depression in 1929, this figure had risen to 120,000. Other cities, such as Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, also experienced surges in their African-American populations. Up until WWI, they had also been receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Major industrial cities were places of numerous languages, an influx of peoples from mostly rural cultures, and staggeringly rapid change in the early decades of the 20th century.
The rapid scale of change could be seen also in Chicago. In 1900 the city had a total population of 1,698,575.[5] By 1920 Chicago had increased by more than 1 million residents. Its population of 2,701,705 included more than 1,000,000 Catholics; 800,000 foreign-born immigrants; 125,000 Jews; and 110,000 African Americans. It had fifteen breweries and 20,000 speakeasies to keep things lively during Prohibition.[6] As did some other cities, Chicago received the most African American migrants in the second wave of the Great Migration; from 1940-1960, the African American population in the city grew from 278,000 to 813,000. The South Side of Chicago was considered the black capital of America.[7]
In the South, the departure of hundreds of thousands of African Americans caused the black percentage of the population in most Southern states to decrease. In Mississippi and South Carolina, for example, blacks decreased from about 60% of the population in 1930 to about 35% by 1970