Secret #21 – Redlining was a National Policy to Segregate the North
You can see the FDR administration’s 239 redlining maps here. You’ll notice redlining was concentrated in the North, not the South.
Massachusetts had 27 redlining maps but Georgia only had 5.
New York state had 17 redlining maps but Mississippi only had 1.
The South in the 1930s was already extremely segregated. Redlining wasn’t a Southern policy that spread up to the North.
Redlining was more a new national government policy to segregate the North after the Great Migration and many Southern Blacks moved to the North.