USA Today: More blacks going for suburbs, fast-growing locations
African-Americans are moving to the South in large numbers and trading some northern cities for their suburbs. Those are among the population trends highlighted by demographic data released today by the Census Bureau.
Among counties with more than 100,000 residents, those that gained the greatest number of blacks from 2000 to 2006 are in Georgia, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia.
"The big trend is the emptying out of blacks from the big, traditional non-Southern destinations," says Brookings Institution demographer William Frey. "A solid wall of counties that were primary destinations for blacks during the peak years of black migration from the South declined."
The black population slipped in places such as New York City and Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago. Many Northern cities lost blacks to Southern counties and to the suburbs of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Columbus, Ohio. ...
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