Northeast or Midwest. Even by 1900, approximately 90 percent of all African- Americans still resided in the South. However, migration from the South has long been a significant feature of

fall into the camp of individualistic thinkers: they believe that the sources of poverty can be traced to characteristics of the poor themselves, whether that be "lack of a

persons color, his or her race or ethnicity, can be one of the most important factors in determining the way that person will be accepted by mainstream society and the

"broader than history in explaining some aspects of society. It is a language of expressing truths

after the Civil war. The Compromise of 1877, however, would signify the end of that tremendous possibility for the black man as a group. That compromise, a compromise

into much of the work he produced prior to 1930, however, as he so eloquently put it, in spite of himself. It was during this early era of his writing,

generally of more aggressive type, spreading faster in this population, a fact that has been supported by studies at George Washington University Hospital (Randolph, 1997). Other facts are also

of the US female population, they account for over 67.4 percent of all HIV-positive women and over 52 percent of all fully diagnosed AIDS cases (Williams, et al, 2003). This

explanation for this is that it may be genetic, but no causative gene has been located (Forrester, 2004). Non-genetic susceptibilities, such as fetal programming also provide a possible explanation. Theoretically,