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Ethnic Cleansing In The United States

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African Americans are heavily distributed in the Southeast portion of the United States. From Louisiana to Virginia, there are a lot of areas with 25% or above. The main reason for the concentration in the South is due to the slave trade of colonial times. African Slaves were brought over to work for the colonials. And most of the slaves were bought to assist cotton plantation owners, who live solely in the south due to the temperance of their crop. And once the slaves were freed, many of them stayed to farm as sharecroppers, and stayed in the south to make permanent homes. On a smaller scale, the only concentration of African Americans of 5%-24.9% in Minnesota is in the Minneapolis Area. This is because after slaves were freed, the United States went through an industrial revolution, and many workers …show more content…

One example of an ethnic cleansing in the 20th century is the Balkans, the area around former Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia, a united nation of several states, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia among others broke apart, Bosnia & Herzegovina was split between ethnicities. The Serbs and Croats began an ethnic cleansing against the Muslims to try to create an ethnically unified state. They attacked and removed many Bosnian Muslims, and displaced more than 2 million. Another example of an ethnic cleansing is the genocide, (a mass killing due to an ethnic cleansing) attempted in Sudan. With two significantly different ethnic groups, the Northern Arabs sought to control the Southern Africans, and the Government-Dominating Arabs began to invade, bomb, raid and burn villages in Sudan. The nomadic Arabs knows as the Janjaweed as began to fight with government funding, raiding villages. The war ended with two separate countries being formed, Sudan and South Sudan, but not without many deaths and other atrocious war crimes

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