![]() "In Atlanta, I also see a lot of African-Americans do very well in a variety of professions, so it was good to see things changing." "We have a great support network of family and friends here, and there is good community involvement, with our kids involved in swimming, tennis and basketball," Haynes said. After considering other places in the South such as Charlotte, the two settled on Atlanta, where Haynes' brother, sister-in-law and parents now also live. He grew up in New York City and lived in Harlem for many years with his wife and two children before growing weary of the cost of living and hectic pace. The converts include Shelton Haynes, 33, a housing manager in Atlanta. "Blacks now look to states like Georgia, Texas and North Carolina as the places with the most promise in the 21st century - a prospect that would have been unimaginable a generation ago." ![]() "The Great Migration of millions of disenfranchised blacks from the South to Northern cities has now completely turned around," Frey said. The gains came primarily at the expense of Northern metro areas such as New York and Chicago, which posted their first declines in black population since at least 1980. That's up from 65 percent in the 1990s, according to the latest census estimates. About 75 percent of that growth occurred in the South - primarily metropolitan areas such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Charlotte, N.C. The nation's black population grew by roughly 1.7 million over the last decade. "With major changes and less racial devastation in the South, people are finding their way back." "It's no coincidence that the shift is happening as we encounter economic turmoil that is being felt disproportionately among blacks, such as mortgage foreclosures, loss of jobs and economic devastation in major Northern hubs," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau. ![]() Better jobs and quality of life in the South are beckoning, as is the lure of something more intangible - a sense of home. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Great Migration, the 60-year escape from segregation and racism that brought American blacks to the North, has reversed course. ![]()
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