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[1] [2] Between 1965 and 1970 around 287,000 African Americans left the Southern United States, while from 1975 to 1980, it is estimated 109,000 African Americans migrated to the Southern United States, showing the reversal of the original Great Migration. [1] Between 1975 and 1980, several Southern states saw net African American migration gains.
Some historians believe that there were two Great Migrations, a first Great Migration (1910–40), during which about 1.6 million people moved from mostly rural areas in the South to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940–70), which began after the Great Depression and during it, at least five million people ...
On June 20 the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program was established, and Haitians would be given the same legal status as Cuban refugees in the United States during the Mariel boatlift. Around 25,000 Haitians would enter the United States during the boatlift. [30] In response, Carter then called for a blockade on the flotilla by the US Coast Guard.
NYT Columnist and Author Charles M. Blow joined Yahoo Finance to break down the impact of reverse migration south on business.
White flight or white exodus [1] [2] [3] is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States .
In May 1980 around 19,000 Cuban refugees from the Mariel boatlift were airlifted to the Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center for immigration processing. The first 128 Cubans brought to the base by plane were met by a trespassing klansman on the tarmac who warned officials to not let them in, claiming they were criminals. [ 3 ]
The song uses Allentown as a metaphor for the resilience of working class Americans in distressed industrial cities during the recession of the early 1980s. The Rust Belt is the setting for Philipp Meyer's 2009 novel American Rust and its 2021 television adaptation .
Obama: The 1980s Called, They Want Their Policy Back. DailyFinance Staff. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:40 PM.