Amtrak service cuts interrupt North-South connection for Black Americans

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The temporary Amtrak cuts will affect numerous majority-Black communities in southern states.

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But the temporary cuts will affect numerous majority-Black communities in southern states. More than half of the African Americans in the U.S. live in the South,African Americans are 13% of the U.S. population, but 19% of Amtrak's ridership, according to a recent passenger survey. Though Amtrak did not provide ridership data on race by route, its trains serve numerous majority-Black communities throughout the South.

New Orleans, the southern anchor of both the Crescent and the City of New Orleans, has 390,144 residents, nearly 60% of whom are Black.Amtrak received $1 billion in relief funds in legislation Congress approved in April

 

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