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  2. New Great Migration - Wikipedia

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    The most populated cities that house millions of African Americans and employ many more, including New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have undergone disproportionate residential evictions and measured gentrification that has moved African Americans to affordable suburbia. [11]

  3. Chicago suburbs seek to restrict migrant dropoffs - AOL

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    Chicago, which has been struggling to house the busloads of people who have arrived over the last year, had established protocols for drop-offs that resulted in some bus companies’ leaving ...

  4. Second Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the South Side area of Chicago and the South Central region of Los Angeles were established as designated areas for African Americans as early as the 1920s and 1930s respectively. Working class blacks were attracted by the low price of housing intentionally placed in order to encourage the concentration of minorities away from whites.

  5. History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Many Blacks leaving Chicago are now moving to outlying suburbs, primarily to the south and west of the city in Cook County, or to the east in Northwest Indiana. Indeed, while Chicago lost more than 260,000 Black residents from 2000-2020, the surrounding suburbs gained about 125,000. [ 47 ]

  6. Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    According to Isabel Wilkerson, despite the loss of leaving their homes in the South, and the barriers faced by the migrants in their new homes, the migration was an act of individual and collective agency, which changed the course of American history, a "declaration of independence" written by their actions.

  7. The Midwest Is A Whole Different Place, And This Account ...

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    The most Midwestern state, according to the poll, turned out to be Iowa. 96.7% of the people there think of themselves as Midwesterners. And in Ohio, ...

  8. Can Tim Walz's Midwestern charm work in Michigan? - AOL

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    More: ‘We feel seen’: Midwestern Democrats soak up the spotlight as Tim Walz ascends at the DNC "He represents ideals that people on both sides can relate to and feel," she said.

  9. Black flight - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s and 1960s, numerous black people from Chicago began to move to suburbs south of the city to improve their housing. Industry job losses hit those towns, too, and many people have left the area altogether. [14] Chicago lost population from 1970 to 1990, with some increases as of the 2000 census, and decreases again from 2000 to 2005 ...