Many Black New Yorkers Are Moving to the South - NYTimes.com: ...The economic downturn has propelled a striking demographic shift: black New Yorkers, including many who are young and college educated, are heading south.About 17 percent of the African-Americans who moved to the South from other states in the past decade came from New York, far more than from any other state, according to census data. Of the 44,474 who left New York State in 2009, more than half, or 22,508, went to the South, according to a study conducted by the sociology department of Queens College for The New York Times.
The movement is not limited to New York. The percentage of blacks leaving big cities in the East and in the Midwest and heading to the South is now at the highest levels in decades, demographers say.
