| Abstract: | A bstract . The movement of middle-class Blacks from the Black ghettos is a phenomenon which greatly intensified in the 1970s. Using 1980 data for ten Florida Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas with large populations, it was determined that the intensity of the migration varied greatly among the cities , for a variety of different reasons. All ten cities, however, experienced clustering among the middle-class Blacks who moved from the ghettos. This clustering was usually around large public service institutions , principal employers of the group. Tracts selected by the Black middle class generally have homes more expensive and newer than the tract average, and the period of occupancy of the residents was shorter than the tract average. Usually Black households in White tracts within the Florida cities do not have socioeconomic parity with their White cohorts. |
