Assertion: african population | /r/CapableOf | decline for first time
Facets:
value: because of emigration to other regions
type: CAUSE
value: since the american civil war
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In a news item of April 3, 2006, however, the New York Times noted that for the first time since the American Civil War, the recorded African-American population was declining, because of emigration to other regions, a declining African-American birthrate in New York, and decreased immigration of Blacks from the Caribbean and Africa.