You can see the FDR administration’s 239 redlining maps here. You’ll notice redlining was concentrated in the North, not the South.
- Massachusetts had 27 redlining maps but Georgia only had 5.
- New York state had 17 redlining maps but Mississippi only had 1.
The South in the 1930s was already extremely segregated. Redlining wasn’t a Southern policy that spread up to the North.
Redlining was more a new national government policy to segregate the North after the Great Migration and many Southern Blacks moved to the North.
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