A U.S. Census report reveals that since its last count 10 years ago, a growing number of blacks have migrated from major cities in the North in favor of locations in the South.

A prime example has been New York City, where the New York Times (NYT) reported recently that about 17 percent of the African-Americans who moved to the South from other states in the past decade moved from New York. Additionally, in information NYT attributed to a Queens College study, of the 44,474 people who left New York State in 2009, more than half, or 22,508, migrated to the South.

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David Bositis, a senior research associate at the D.C.-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, said in a February Associated Press report that it has become a national political strategy for blacks to migrate from large urban cities in the North.

"Democrats want to spread out minorities. Republicans want to create white districts, or ones with a small enough minority population that it won't have an effect on the vote," Bositis was quoted as saying.

This article was previously available at The Washington Informer.