Four Georgia counties are experiencing big racial shifts amid the reversal of the 20th century's Great Migration, when millions of blacks moved North to escape discrimination and find work.

Rockdale, Henry, Douglas and Gwinnett counties hold the top four rankings among large counties nationwide for their percentage-point losses of white residents between 2000 and 2013, a new Pew Research Center study shows.

Many blacks are now moving South to be near family and friends, find affordable homes and send their children to good schools. And that migration is coinciding with political changes and some friction.

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