The residential pattern of black housing evolved into distinctive types in the South and the North. Study these different types. Blacks, as slaves, lived among their white owners. In the North, large concentrations of black in ghettos became typical and this pattern eventually spread south as well. T he Delta, which covers Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, is one of the poorest regions in the United States .
Unemployment rates are several times higher than in the nation.
Five precent of the houses have no running water. About a third of the children live in poverty and 40 percent of the population has no high school diplomas. In Vicksburg , the mansions of former slave owners lie across the tracks from the shotgun houses of poor black folk , now and since shortly after the Civil War. Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 25 February 1997.