For my Senior Seminar class, this is the task being presented to me. My task is to conduct a project involving one of the major subfields of geography. The topic of choice for me will be the Non-traditional migration patterns of Black people in the USA.
The questions to be asked are:
What are the factors in Black people moving to places outside of the traditional migration patterns?
From where are Black people moving from?
What are the pull factors?
What are the push factors?
To give a synopsis on this, this is what I have found in some of my research. Large numbers of Blacks are moving to the Southeast USA/Texas(I don't consider Texas part of the South). However, there are specific places Black people are moving to. Cities such as Atlanta, Dallas,Houston, Charlotte, Raleigh, Orlando, and other major southern cities. The places of which many African-Americans are coming from include New York, California, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. It is fitting to note that there is a large migration from the northern and some western states to the Southeast USA/Texas.
All things considered, there is a migration that is not receiving much attention. If one were to look at the percentage of Blacks moving to the Southeast, those states are not seeing the largest gains. Rather, it is where African-Americans have not traditionally migrated to in large numbers that are seeing the most rapid increases in their Black populations. Even more interesting, it is the states with the highest percentages of Whites that are seeing such a shift. This change in movement does not only include African-Americans. African refugees are also moving to such places.
This is just a synopsis of the project.
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