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Southern Black Belt Counties Improve Some, But Still Lag Behind Rest of Region

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  • Bellamy, Donald

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The southern economy thrived in the 1960's and 1970's. The South prospered so much, with new jobs, new industries, and higher income, that many researchers and leaders lionized the South as the "new economic frontier." However, not all southern areas, particularly nonmetropolitan areas, shared equally in the growth. Many of the southern nonmetro counties that have been left behind are concentrated in what has been called the Black Belt, a band of 279 nonmetro counties stretching from Virginia to Arkansas, each county having a black population of 30 percent or more of the county total (map). Although these Black Belt counties showed some improvement during the last decade, their per capita income, earnings per job, and share of complex manufacturing plants remained lower than in the rest of the region.

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  • Bellamy, Donald, 1991. "Southern Black Belt Counties Improve Some, But Still Lag Behind Rest of Region," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 7(2), May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:310940
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310940
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