This time, post-World War II, many African Americans had begun to become a more urbanized population center, around 1970. (Inmotionaame, page 1) The normal population comprised approximately 70% of the only natural population that lived in the most urbanized cities. (Inmotionaame, p. 1) Soon African Americans dominated, as 80% of their community lived and benefited equally in the most urbanized centers of the United States. (Inmotionaame, p. 2) Only about 53% of African Americans and others who appeared to migrate remained in the same area of ​​the South. (Inmotionaame, pg. 2) From 1910 to 1940, 1.5 million African Americans left southern areas for northern cities. (Memory.loc.gov, pg. 1) Then, from 1940 to 1950, another 1.5 million African Americans left the South and moved to North Cities. (Memory.loc.gov, page 1) Shortly thereafter, in 1970, there were more than 5 million African Americans in the North. (Inmotionaame, p. 2) The global structure and statehood of the United States has undergone a tremendous geographic shift, but what has been strikingly significant in this period since the end of World War II has been its shift in destination. (Memory.loc.gov, pg. 2) Every in 7 Southerners moved from the South to the North, from the South to the North, or to the Western states, soon after. (Faculty.washington.edu, pg. 1) A large amount, over half a million African Americans, left the two Carolinas: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in the period and decade following World War II. (Wisconsinhistory.org, pg. 1) California experienced much, almost all, of the great impact it had with this migration, as many settled in California and nearby states such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Inmotionaame,...... middle of paper ......the areas of the southern states. Furthermore, it was not only African Americans who migrated, but also urban consumers of the United States, or people known as lower class or low There were also many people who were affected by this pattern of mass migration (Faculty.washington.edu, p. 5) It was so sudden that the government no longer needed physical labor to work in the sugar fields and. cotton, therefore more. and other technological innovations to support this change, how tractors and the new cotton picker, at the time famous, were what brought the United States to a new extraordinary point in history, the Great Depression (Inmotionaame, p. 3). Overall there were many migration patterns of African Americans in the post-World War II United States. This catastrophic commitment led to many new and impactful ways of living for so many people.