The Population of the United States by Douglas L. Anderton

Author:Douglas L. Anderton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 1997-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

1 The data for 1990-1992 represent an average of 1991 and 1992 CPS data. The data for the other time periods represent a change in current residence compared to residence five years earlier. Thus, the data for 1990-1992 are not strictly comparable to those from the other time periods.

2 North Central in 1980 and earlier.

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, “Geographical Mobility. March 1991 to March 1992,” Table C, “March 1990 to March 1991,” Table C, and “March 1975 to March 1980,” Table B, Series P-20, Numbers 473, 463, and 368, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1993, 1992, and 1984.

The summary in Table 8-7 for the inter-regional movement of the black population, matching that for the total population (Table 8-5), documents the continuation of the very dramatic reversal of direction in the inter-regional flow of the black population during the 1970s and since. Instead of attracting black population from the South (as they did for decades before 1970), both the Northeast and the Midwest regions have suffered net migratory losses of black population, which instead has flowed primarily back to the South and to the West.

The net migration 1990-92 (multiplied by 5) indicates that the “black flight” from the Northeast may even have accelerated, and that the net movement of black persons from the Midwest continues toward the West, but not the South. As yet there is no consensus about the meaning and durability of these trends. Does it imply that employment and other livelihood necessities are now more attractive for black citizens in the South and West regions than in the North? Some researchers consider it to have a very large ‘return migration’ component of black persons (and their descendants) who left the South during the great trek North before 1960.

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