Census Data Mapper Map & Analysis
The map that I made is where African Americans are located in the United States. The south-east part of the U.S. has an extremely high concentration of African Americans. The farther north and west you go, there is less and less African Americans. In the north-west U.S. (Montana, Idaho), there is almost no black people. On the east and west coast, there is a fair amount of African Americans, but most of them live in a cluster of states in the south-east corner.
The reason I think that there is so many African Americans in the south-east is because they haven’t migrated to anywhere else in the country (Of course some people would migrate, but most of them stayed in the south). During slavery in the U.S., almost all of the slaves were in the south, with next to none being in the north. Now that slavery is over i think that the black people are just staying in the south because their culture is very alive in the south and also because their ancestors have lived there for many years.
The only modern economical impact that the cluster of African Americans in the south has made is the north being less racially diverse. However, 50 years ago, there was a big stir in the civil rights movement in the south. Black children were being separated from white children in everything from schools to drinking fountains. This created many heroes like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks who changed the U.S. society forever.
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