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Title: 'Continued interest in the Appalachian migrant is not warranted': Appalachian out-migrants in the larger southern exodus, 1940-1980

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Even as southern Appalachian migrants began to actively assert a group identity in some northern cities in the late 1960s, it was an open question as to whether they ought to be considered a group at all. In the years since the 1960s, the fate of southern Appalachian migrants in the North and Midwest has continued to be the subject of much debate. A flurry of sociological work in the 1970s and 1980s suggested that southern Appalachian migrants to the North encountered extreme hardship that demanded special attention and services. That work both drew from and informed numerous local policy studies. More recent work focusing on southern white out-migration as a whole has sharply challenged the core findings of much of the scholarly work from the 1970s and 1980s, arguing that most southern white migrants moved with relative ease into the North's most coveted skilled blue-collar and white-collar occupations.

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Authors: Alexander, J.Trent

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Publication Number: 2005-04

Institution: University of Minnesota

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Publisher Location: Minneapolis, MN

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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