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<text id=90TT0180>
<title>
Jan. 22, 1990: American Notes:Population
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 22, 1990 A Murder In Boston
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 27
American Notes
POPULATION
An Exodus Turns Around
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<body>
<p> 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%.
</p>
<p> 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."
</p>
</body>
</article>
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