{"id":26884,"date":"2011-06-23T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_new_life_blacks_in_new_york_city_head_to_the_south\/"},"modified":"2011-06-23T15:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T15:36:23","slug":"for_new_life_blacks_in_new_york_city_head_to_the_south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26884","title":{"rendered":"For New Life, Blacks in New York City Head to the South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Deborah Brown\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>But for Ms. Brown, 59, a retired civil servant from Queens, the South now promises salvation.<br \/>Three generations of her family \u201d\u201d 10 people in all \u201d\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>The economic downturn has propelled a striking demographic shift: black New Yorkers, including many who are young and college educated, are heading south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/nyregion\/many-black-new-yorkers-are-moving-to-the-south.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Deborah Brown\u2019s 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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26884\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,674,149,133,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-censuscensus-data","category-economy","category-history","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}