[...] Nearly two weeks later, I don't know what my city will look like in a year or two. I don't know how many people will return. But one thing is clear: It will never be the same. Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr., pastor of my parent's church, is concerned that many of his 20,000-plus members, nearly all of whom are black and had worked their way firmly into the middle class, won't come back. Already, many have accepted jobs and enrolled their children in schools in cities across the country. Their absence has created a leadership vacuum in a city that so desperately needs it now. "You're missing out on people who kept things going strong," he says.
| That's the end of Steven Gray's Reporters' Notebook article "For Black Middle Class, Home Is Gone" for the Wall Street Journal
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