"Sun Belt" migration

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Jun 11, 2012 by Dustin Cable

This phenomenon has been at play at least since the 1920s,

when, for the first time, a majority of Americans lived in

urban areas — due, in part, to the GreatMigration of blacks 

moving from the mostly rural Jim Crow South to the cities of North. 

These demographic shifts changed the ... Since the second half 

of the twentieth century to 2008, however, migration has shifted

back toward the “Sunbelt” and to newly expanding cities of the South.

Economic development .

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