Editing Southern United States (section)

===New Great Migration===
{{Main|New Great Migration}}
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ended Jim Crow laws across the South and other areas of the United States. In recent decades, a second migration appears to be underway, this time with [[New Great Migration|African Americans from the North moving to the South]] in record numbers.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261746 |title = Tracking New Trends in Race Migration |work = [[News & Notes]] |access-date = April 4, 2008 |date = March 14, 2006 |publisher = [[National Public Radio]] |archive-date = May 18, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080518011612/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261746 |url-status = live }}</ref> While race relations are still a contentious issue in the South and most of the U.S., the region surpasses the rest of the country in many areas of integration and racial equality. According to 2003 report by researchers at the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]], [[Virginia Beach]], [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]], [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville-Davidson]], and [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]] were the five most integrated of the nation's fifty largest cities, with [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] at number six.<ref>{{Cite news |url = http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2003/01/13/daily9.html |title = Study shows Memphis among most integrated cities |work = [[American City Business Journals|Memphis Business Journal]] |date = January 13, 2003 |access-date = December 9, 2009 |archive-date = March 25, 2004 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040325124931/http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2003/01/13/daily9.html |url-status = live }}</ref> Southern states tend to have a low disparity in incarceration rates between blacks and whites relative to the rest of the country.<ref>{{cite web |first = Marc |last = Mauer |author2 = Ryan S. King |title = Uneven Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity |date = July 2007 |publisher = [[Sentencing Project|The Sentencing Project]] |location = Washington, D.C. |page = 16 |access-date = April 20, 2010 |url = http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_stateratesofincbyraceandethnicity.pdf |archive-date = July 10, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100710063352/http://www.sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_stateratesofincbyraceandethnicity.pdf |url-status = live }} (Report.)</ref>

The New Great Migration is not evenly distributed throughout the South. The rise in net gain points to Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, and Houston being a growing hot spots for the migrants of The New Great Migration. The percentage of Black Americans who live in the South has been increasing since 1990, and the biggest gains have been in the region's large urban areas, according to census data. The Black population of metro Atlanta more than doubled between 1990 and 2020, surpassing 2 million in the most recent census. The Black population also more than doubled in metro Charlotte while Greater Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth both saw their Black populations surpass 1 million for the first time. Several smaller metro areas also saw sizable gains, including San Antonio;<ref name="expressnews.com">{{Cite news|date=2021-08-13|title=Latinos, Blacks Show Strong Growth in San Antonio as White Population Declines|newspaper=San Antonio Express-News |url=https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Latinos-Black-communities-grow-in-San-Antonio-16385595.php|access-date=November 12, 2023|archive-date=March 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301110840/https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Latinos-Black-communities-grow-in-San-Antonio-16385595.php|url-status=live |last1=O'Hare |first1=By Peggy }}</ref> Raleigh and [[Greensboro]], North Carolina; and [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Felton |first1=Emmanuel |last2=Harden |first2=John D. |last3=Schaul |first3=Kevin |title=Still looking for a 'Black mecca,' the new Great Migration |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/14/black-migration-south/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=November 14, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223173307/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/14/black-migration-south/ |archive-date=2022-12-23}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Primary destinations are states that have the most job opportunities, especially [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[North Carolina]], [[Maryland]], [[Virginia]], [[Tennessee]], [[Florida]] and [[Texas]]. Other southern states, including [[Mississippi]], [[Louisiana]], [[South Carolina]], [[Alabama]] and [[Arkansas]], have seen little net growth in the African American population from return migration.