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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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Blow's Move to the North

Some six million black southerners moved to destination cities like detroit and chicago, new york and philadelphia. This left behind a south that was missing many of its men. Blow's move to the north was an echo of what has come to be called the great migration. By the time he was born there were clearly more women than men in gibsland....

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