After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 Johannesburg experienced a new, unofficial apartheid as businesses moved away from downtown to the city's wealthier, whiter, northern suburbs, leaving the city center a shadow of its once dynamic self.

CNN: Johannesburg's growing pains

Why is it important that the Brazilians coming to the U.S. tend to be whiter or lighter skinned?

NPR: Afro-Brazilian, African-American Ties

For one thing, West Virginia's electorate is older and whiter than average.

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