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Originally Posted by DCReid
My guess is that much of NYC's black non-immigrant population that moved went to southern cities, especially Charlotte and Atlanta, and maybe some to DC. I doubt many went to Philly.
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Immigrant blacks in NYC move to Philly, though. There's an immigrant trend where families move close-by, but not exactly adjacent, as with Puerto Ricans in Hartford, Dominicans in Allentown and West Indians in Philly (yeah PRs aren't technically immigrants, but same general trend).
I suspect the positive numbers in Philly are largely due to NYC, and NYC's better-than-average performance masks the fact that AA migration patterns are the same as in other U.S. cities, but the huge black immigrant population makes up for it.