re: "Where are you getting these numbers? I didn't think the median income for anyone was higher in the south than in the midwest."
KT,
Median household incomes of racial and ethnic groups,
by region, 1990 and 2000
mumford1.dyndns.org
This information makes sense, when you combine it with racial residential segregation comparisons:
"the level of residential segregation for the 43 large metropolitan areas with 1 million or more population in 1980 and at least 3 percent or 20,000 or more Blacks. In terms of the most commonly used residential segregation index, dissimilarity...
...When the other four indexes are taken into account and the ranks averaged across the five indexes, the five most segregated metropolitan areas for Blacks in 2000 were, in order, Milwaukee-Waukesha, Detroit, Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, St. Louis, and Newark (Milwaukee- Waukesha and Detroit are less than one average rank apart). Cincinnati, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, and New York, are roughly tied for number six, but each is more than one average rank behind Newark. The top ten are rounded out by Chicago and Philadelphia...
Averaging the ranks across the five indexes, the most segregated areas in 2000 were also the most segregated in 1990, and among the six most segregated in 1980...
...When using all five indexes averaged, the five least segregated metropolitan areas for Blacks were, in order: Orange County, San Jose, Norfolk-Virginia Beach- Newport News, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, and San Diego..."
census.gov
Which might explain, why there is now a net migration of African American households - to the South.
prb.org
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