The Monkey Cage

I’m glad you reposted this because I’ve been thinking about it since I first saw it and I what I’ve been wondering is this: What happened to that area there on the Alabama/Tennessee border where there’s a collection of dots but no blue counties?

I would imagine the collection of dots with no blue counties along the Tennessee/Alabama border can be explained by black migration away from those counties. This map demonstrates the amazing lack of black migration since the end of the Civil War throughout Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia while showing a different story about the patterns of migration in South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Very interesting.

Great map. I was looking at my purple America map with someone today and they noticed that band of deep blue across the south too. Interesting correlation.

That band of blue counties in Alabama is called the “Black Belt” supposedly referring to the black soil, but also referring to majority african american population in those areas.

This is really something else. What about comparing this map to others dating back several years?