TFSmith121
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True; my point was simply that there WAS a mass movement of
True; my point was simply that there WAS a mass movement of "poor" whites to the north (and west) in US history, and that the impact on the south was significant. I would expect net emigration was always OUT of the south until the WW II boom, and the postwar Sunbelt economic development - which was funded, largely, by federal defense and related spending and open shop legislation at the state level.
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1) Well, the Detroit Race Riots were a direct result of that. Not just refusing to hire unemployed Detroit Black residents, not just transporting in thousands of illiterate untrained Whites from hundreds of miles away to take those jobs, not only said Southern Whites taking their racist attitudes with them and fully expecting to be able to export them to one of the Blackest cities in America, but having the Detroit Blacks being evicted from their homes (renters, IDK about home owners) in the name of "wartime emergencies" to make room for said racist Whites. Small wonder that the rest was infamy.
True; my point was simply that there WAS a mass movement of "poor" whites to the north (and west) in US history, and that the impact on the south was significant. I would expect net emigration was always OUT of the south until the WW II boom, and the postwar Sunbelt economic development - which was funded, largely, by federal defense and related spending and open shop legislation at the state level.
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