Shifting Population

There is a fascinating shift in America's population. Specifically Black Americans are leaving the North and moving to the South. This would be younger people, under 40. The shift and movement is noticeable with numbers growing in the South. Its all about interest, jobs, family, these kinds of connections.

CS Monitor: 2010 Census showcases America's great racial seesaw

The former Confederate states now hold 57 percent of the black population, up from 55 percent 10 years before and 53 percent in 1990 and the highest percentage since 1960.


...1910, when about 90 percent of blacks lived in the South.


"...you're seeing an outward flow of blacks and return migration into the South..."


"blacks are moving away from the urban North."