The New Great Migration is the demographic change from 1970 to the present, which is a reversal of the previous 55-year trend of black migration within the United States. Since 1970, deindustrialization of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the "New South" with lower costs of living, family, kinship ties, improving racial relations and religious connections have all acted to attract African Americans to the Southern United States in substantial numbers. Between 1965 and 1970 the Southern States lost around 287,000 African-Americans, while from 1975 to 1980 the South United States had a net gain of 109,000 African-Americans showing the reversal of the original Great Migration. Between 1975 and 1980, several southern states saw net African-American mig