They're turks/muslims/didn't have members trying to set up a nazi puppet state/Poland didn't try to conquer it during the 20s.
Or people somehow have nostalgia for the hetmanate...
My only non-cynical explanation is that they were isolated in Central Asia.
lol. I could probably look for some sources and find 'em.
I strongly suggest you read the book
Sundown Towns. Probably one of the best history books I've read in the last decade, and a real eye opener.
"NIGGER DONT LET THE SUN SET ON YOU".
EDIT: Fuck, I cant find that image. But there was a sign I saw posted on a forum that said that.
Even now, my mother's boyfriend won't stop in Cairo, Illinois (Southernmost city in Illinois) because apparently there was a history of those guys lynching black people. Funny as now I think the city is mainly black. 0_o
I remember my grandparents talking about using the US routes to/from mississippi and sleeping on the road stops/rest stops because they didnt want to deal with segregation in those towns.....
EDIT 2: Hearing their stories, and reading history novels n whatnot makes me afraid to go into any majority-white small town in the US Deep South haha. Speaking of that, the sundown town thing is now informal and apparently it is mainly legend that keeps those rumors alive.
After the civil war, they moved just about everywhere, all the way up to northern Maine and Montana (IIRC, he mentions at one point Montana Territory was 10% black and 30% Chinese). They also tended to move to remote, rural areas, as most blacks were themselves from rural areas. They were initially welcomed into their new communities, but as racial attitudes hardened once again in the post-reconstruction era, they were slowly drummed out of the North and upland South, until, similar to the Chinese, they were forced into a few enclaves in the big cities. The history was almost lost because these descendents from this first migration became swamped by the descendents of the great migration.
AFAIK a lot of freedman ended up living in Kansas and whatnot. Remember liek 1/3rd of Cowboys AT LEAST were with the Mestizo or Black.
As others have noted, the Chinese were ethnically cleansed in the same fashion. The also moved to rural areas originally, mainly to work on the railroads. Chinatowns developed because they were forced back into urban areas, and they needed some measure of self-defense and community involvement just to stay alive. Mind you, most of the Chinese from that era just died out because so few women were allowed to migrate.
I thought the Chinese males simply married Irish women, as there were way more Irish women in the west than Irish man. It was reported on that as well.
EDIT: consolidating double-post
I forgot to answer these statements:
Recently, some historians have suggested that one of the actual causes of the Great Migration was an increase in Racial violence in the American south, not just an increase in economic opportunities up north.
Im not sure about the original one, but my grandparents moved north mainly because there were jobs there (industrial jobs, etc) and that remittances could be sent to their families. Note my grandparents were in the SECOND great migration, not the first one - and they moved north in around the late 1940s/early 1950s.
Yet it strikes me that America was still fairly lucky.
Roffle.
Yet before these states collapsed, relations were amicable enough. As Ivan Adnric pointed out in his book on life in the Bosnian town of Visegrad before and during the Great War, relations were amicable enough despite tension. Yet by the Gerat War, the Bosnians, Jews, etc. which had once gossiped, shared coffee, etc. proceeded to kill each other, unleashing a blood bath.
In a way that applies to black people in the USA. My grandmother got excess food from a nearby white farmer, after asking him if he had excess stuff to take (potatoes, etc). Of course, my grandmother also remembers lynchings and having shit thrown at her by white children when she passed the white school. The way some of the people (black AND white) acted in some of those towns were...yeesh. No wonder we formed militias in later time periods et all.
That apparently was a fairly widespread phenomenon, and it wasn't because there were no blacks living in the area. Unfortunately, I'm having a bad case of source amnesia for this, but i seem to recall a couple of Southern towns in the 1890s and 1900s decided they wanted to get rid of their black neighbourhoods by what you could call collective civic volunteerism. Involving guns, arson and hangings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre
One thing I forgot. The anti-Jewish pogroms, sometimes by black americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Luther King pointed out aspects like the 'color tax' Jewish businesses levied against black people. And the black people were naturally angry and there were cases of kicking the Jews out. There were cases of this happening in Brooklyn in the 1980s as well as related political wrangling. Wait that's post-1900s....meh othe people put post 1900s stuff in here.