Reverse Migration (African Americans)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Reverse_Migration_(African_Americans)

GPTKB entity

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	demographic phenomenon
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	New Great Migration
gptkbp:beganIn	1970s
gptkbp:cause	family ties lower cost of living cultural connections economic opportunities in the South improved racial climate in the South
gptkbp:contrastsWith	gptkb:Great_Migration
gptkbp:countryOfCitizenship	gptkb:Midwestern_United_States gptkb:Northeastern_United_States gptkb:Western_United_States
gptkbp:demographics	decline of Black populations in Northern and Midwestern cities growth of Black populations in Southern cities
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Reverse Migration (African Americans)
gptkbp:majorCity	gptkb:Alabama gptkb:Arkansas gptkb:Florida gptkb:Georgia gptkb:Louisiana gptkb:Maryland gptkb:Mississippi gptkb:North_Carolina gptkb:Oklahoma gptkb:South_Carolina gptkb:Southwestern_United_States gptkb:Tennessee gptkb:Texas gptkb:Virginia metropolitan areas in the South
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Atlanta gptkb:Birmingham gptkb:Charlotte gptkb:Dallas gptkb:Houston gptkb:Jackson gptkb:Memphis gptkb:New_Orleans gptkb:Oklahoma_City gptkb:Washington,_D.C. gptkb:Orlando gptkb:Little_Rock gptkb:Raleigh
gptkbp:notableFor	1970s to present
gptkbp:refersTo	return migration of African Americans to the Southern United States
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Great_Migration African American history internal migration in the United States
gptkbp:studiedBy	historians sociologists demographers
gptkbp:trend	increasing Black middle class in the South return of retirees to the South reverse of 20th-century migration patterns
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Great_Migration_(African_Americans)
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7