Reply #5: Yeah, but the vast majority of black people live in the Southeast

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So the black migration north that occurred 60 years ago has been reversed to a large extent and will continue to as more time passes. More blacks live in the southeast than in any other part of America. The trend towards Big Mama's return may not be as bleak as it appears.

My own great-grandmother lived right up the street from my grandmother when I was a teenager in the 80's. She lived in a big house in Macon, GA up until my grandmother decided she couldn't live by herself anymore and moved her literally two houses up from her until she was put in a nursing home. My grandparents played a massive, tremendous role in my life. I've posted before about my grandmother always correcting my grammar and my grandfather being the best man I've ever known in my life and the trials and tribulations he endured as a black man living in America.

Even now, my grandmother plays a HUGE role in my teenaged cousins lives and in my own, even though I'm grown and on the other side of the world. In fact, I swear she is constantly telling me of stories about people she knows that her age or close who are actually RAISING their grandchildren themselves. Yes, there are many grandparents who are empty nesters, but I have to wonder about the ones who are forced to raise their grandchildren themselves out of necessity. I can't imagine how much joy and pain that must bring simultaneously.