Between 1910 and 1970, nearly six million African-Americans left the South to avoid sharecropping, very-low wages and segregation. After so many years, trend seems to be changing as now many African-American families are migrating back to South, which offers cheaper taxes and better job opportunities.

This new trend can be called 'reverse migration'. One of those who left the South was Annette McFarland. McFarland, 74, shared that it's been six decades now that they have shifted to Rochester.

She affirmed that now many are relocating to today's Southern urban centers for better jobs and homes. In 1900, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi were the biggest state populations of African-Americans in the US.

Things changed by 1970 when the largest populations were in New York, Illinois and California. People decided that they no more wanted to live in those areas where many white Americans did not give equal value to African- Americans.

McFarland has an incident to share. She remembers that she used to get up at 3am when she was 10 years old in Arkansas to pick cotton for 10 hours and used to get $1. "The idea was to make money and a better way of living ... we weren't treated like human beings - you were a nobody", said McFarland.

She shared that in North, white people were friendly. McFarland's daughter Jennette Henry has worked for years in Rochester. But finally, she decided to relocate in 2005 to the South for better job prospects.

Henry affirmed that in the South, there is much better job market. Owing to this reason and others, many Rochester residents have migrated to Charlotte, which is sometimes referred as 'little Rochester'.

Rev. Claybron Brazwell, of The Way of Holiness Church in Rochester, affirmed that memories and family are some other big reasons for retired people to return to more familiar culture in the South. Also, recent racial charged police incidents in the North and Midwest, high tax rates and bad northern winters are making people to go back to their roots.