From: Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration
 | 1940 |  | 1950 |  | ||||||
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 | Prop. Southern | # of natives | Prop. Southern | # of natives | ||||||
Metro | All | Black | White | Black | White | All | Black | White | Black | White |
Atlantic City, NJ | 0.094 | 0.085 | 0.009 | 23 | 181 | 0.030 | 0.022 | 0.008 | 13 | 54 |
Baltimore, MD | 0.149 | 0.083 | 0.066 | 237 | 2062 | 0.213 | 0.116 | 0.097 | 85 | 735 |
Boston, MA-NH | 0.015 | 0.007 | 0.007 | 41 | 4582 | 0.032 | 0.012 | 0.020 | 18 | 1725 |
Charleston, WV | 0.161 | 0.057 | 0.104 | 26 | 543 | 0.113 | 0.059 | 0.054 | 14 | 204 |
Chicago, IL | 0.095 | 0.062 | 0.032 | 155 | 9003 | 0.149 | 0.102 | 0.047 | 105 | 3308 |
Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH/KY/IN | 0.266 | 0.082 | 0.184 | 30 | 996 | 0.281 | 0.085 | 0.196 | 12 | 390 |
Cleveland, OH | 0.094 | 0.065 | 0.029 | 37 | 2368 | 0.113 | 0.085 | 0.028 | 29 | 877 |
Columbus, OH | 0.106 | 0.061 | 0.045 | 38 | 799 | 0.098 | 0.043 | 0.055 | 19 | 349 |
Dayton-Springfield, OH | 0.137 | 0.056 | 0.082 | 37 | 872 | 0.259 | 0.106 | 0.153 | 11 | 323 |
Des Moines, IA | 0.027 | 0.005 | 0.023 | 11 | 418 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Detroit, MI | 0.157 | 0.073 | 0.085 | 62 | 4226 | 0.245 | 0.135 | 0.110 | 51 | 1616 |
Indianapolis, IN | 0.176 | 0.077 | 0.099 | 39 | 911 | 0.167 | 0.063 | 0.104 | 18 | 311 |
Kansas City, MO-KS | 0.139 | 0.057 | 0.083 | 96 | 1311 | 0.179 | 0.081 | 0.098 | 21 | 492 |
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA | 0.171 | 0.024 | 0.147 | 44 | 4737 | 0.200 | 0.049 | 0.151 | 29 | 2246 |
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | 0.020 | 0.007 | 0.013 | 15 | 1898 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
New Haven-Meriden, CT | 0.018 | 0.011 | 0.007 | 15 | 977 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
New York-Northeastern NJ | 0.066 | 0.045 | 0.020 | 427 | 19203 | 0.083 | 0.058 | 0.025 | 235 | 6835 |
Omaha, NE/IA | 0.061 | 0.034 | 0.027 | 11 | 545 | 0.077 | 0.027 | 0.050 | 10 | 184 |
Philadelphia, PA/NJ | 0.087 | 0.064 | 0.024 | 263 | 5729 | 0.128 | 0.094 | 0.033 | 136 | 2067 |
Pittsburgh, PA | 0.061 | 0.044 | 0.017 | 79 | 4007 | 0.064 | 0.050 | 0.015 | 39 | 1436 |
St. Louis, MO-IL | 0.131 | 0.070 | 0.061 | 97 | 2805 | 0.168 | 0.096 | 0.072 | 45 | 978 |
San Francisco-Oakland-Vallejo, CA | 0.100 | 0.011 | 0.089 | 18 | 2719 | 0.202 | 0.059 | 0.143 | 13 | 1204 |
Seattle-Everett, WA | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.129 | 0.030 | 0.099 | 10 | 458 |
Topeka, KS | 0.068 | 0.029 | 0.039 | 11 | 182 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Trenton, NJ | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.084 | 0.073 | 0.011 | 12 | 147 |
Washington, DC/MD/VA | 0.354 | 0.151 | 0.202 | 232 | 1128 | 0.361 | 0.148 | 0.213 | 106 | 459 |
Wheeling, WV/OH | 0.049 | 0.028 | 0.022 | 14 | 692 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Wilmington, DE/NJ/MD | 0.050 | 0.017 | 0.032 | 37 | 353 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Youngstown-Warren, OH-PA | 0.070 | 0.045 | 0.025 | 12 | 934 | 0.063 | 0.052 | 0.011 | 12 | 368 |