On the Move

The South's race problem is moving north and west--as some Southerners have long predicted that it would.

In the last 16 years, Detroit's Negro population has increased by 75% (to 210,000). Los Angeles' 133,000 Negro population has more than doubled since 1940. Between 1930 and 1945, New York's Negro population has increased 67% (to 547,000); Chicago's by 50% (to 350,000); San Francisco's by 741% (to 32,000). In Portland, Ore., Negroes increased from 2,100 in 1940 to 11,000 in 1946.

One aspect of the North's new responsibility: in Manhattan's overcrowded Harlem slums, venereal disease is up 188% (to 38 cases per 1,000) since 1930.

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