Many Black New Yorkers Moveing to the South.
By DAN BILEFSKY
Published: June 21, 2011
Candace Wilkins, 27, left, of St. Albans, Queens, with her mother, right, and her grandmother. Ms. Wilkins plans to move to Charlotte, N.C.
In Deborah Brown’s family lore, the American South was a place of whites-only water fountains and lynchings under cover of darkness. It was a place black people like her mother had fled.
But for Ms. Brown, 59, a retired civil servant from Queens, the South now promises salvation.
Three generations of her family — 10 people in all — are moving to Atlanta from New York, seeking to start fresh economically and, in some sense, to reconnect with a bittersweet past. They include Ms. Brown, her 82-year-old mother and her 26-year-old son, who has already landed a job and settled there.
The economic downturn has propelled a striking demographic shift: black New Yorkers, including many who are young and college educated, are heading south.
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