Maine counties systematically expelled their black residents between 1890 and 1930

Evidence

Just as it did in the West and Midwest, racial discrimination followed black Americans to the North. Sundown towns proliferated there, too. In 1890 every county in the state of Maine, except for two, counted at least a dozen or so black residents. But by 1930, we see a different Maine. Five counties no longer had any black residents at all, while several other counties showed significant decreases in the black population. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 366

Categorization

• XREF: Northern-state expulsion data undermines the common objection that segregation was only a southern problem.