wild goose chase
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Atlanta actually recently surpassed Chicago for the second largest Black population.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/chicagos-black-population_n_572311.html
ETA: Found some more stats. In 1970, the Chicago metropolitan area had 1,345,000 blacks, in 2010 it was 1,645,000. In Washington the black population nearly doubled, from 750,000 to 1,438,000. Atlanta was especially dramatic from about 400,000 to 1,708,000, leapfrogging over Chicago.
Wow, that's pretty dramatic. I assume some part of that was immigration, but the main factor (which would probably still be true even if immigration from Africa and Caribbean countries to these particular cities wasn't at play) was the reversal of the previous trend (ie. what is now called the New Great Migration)? Black American demographic trends between cities, unlike say Hispanic and Asian American ones still less driven by immigration and mainly are driven by internal migration between states, right?
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