Southern Schools: A Bit of a Surprise

Southern schools have become the first in the nation to have a majority of poor and minorities.

But it isn't for the reasons people think:

The shift was fueled not by white flight from public schools, which spiked during desegregation but has not had much effect on school demographics since the early 1980s. Rather, an influx of Latinos and other ethnic groups, the return of blacks to the South and higher birth rates among black and Latino families have contributed to the change.

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