CULTURETECHLENSNew Great Migration
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Combined Graph record U-02355 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0116. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Return migration South; the South still posted NEGATIVE black net-migration in the 1965-1970 census period (-287,400 per Frey 2004 data cited in the fetched paper); the net reversal is a 1970s phenomenon, first positive in the 1975-1980 period (+108,878); Chicago Black population 1.2M (1980) to ~703K (2024 est.)
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Return migration South; the South still posted NEGATIVE black net-migration in the 1965-1970 census period (-287,400 per Frey 2004 data cited in the fetched paper); the net reversal is a 1970s phenomenon, first positive in the 1975-1980 period (+108,878); Chicago Black population 1.2M (1980) to ~703K (2024 est.)
The record
- Also known as: reverse migration
Sources
- DeWaard, Curtis & Fuguitt — 'The Temporal Dynamics and Stability of Black Migration to the South, 1970-2000,' Minnesota Population Center Working Paper 2014-10, University of Minnesota (tier 3 scholarship, fetched in full) (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
New Great Migration established as a demographic reversal: black net-migration to the South reversed from negative to positive in the 1970s for the first time since before the Great Migration; between 1975 and 1980 black net-migration in the South stood at +108,878 (Frey 2004 data), accelerating to +346,546 by 2000; drivers included deindustrialization in the Northeast/Midwest, Southern job growth, lower costs, family/kinship ties ('call to home') and lessening discrimination. Stored since=1970 and alias 'reverse migration' confirmed as the conventional framing (the paper notes its own temporal-dynamics analysis dates the pronounced stability shift to the 1980s, one decade after the net-migration turnaround).
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