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Migration and race in the southern United States
| Author: |
Aratame, Natsumi; Singelmann, Joachim |
| Date: |
1998 |
| Periodical: |
Research in Rural Sociology and Development. JAI Press Inc. |
| Abstract: |
The South continues to have a much higher proportion of blacks than any other region in the United States, and a larger share of them live in nonmetropolitan areas. Black nonmetropolitan residents often live in areas with high poverty rates, unemployment, and unfavorable health conditions such as low life expectancy and high infant mortality. Consequently, while an urban focus to poverty and social disadvantage is appropriate elsewhere in the United States, an attention to both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas is necessary in the South for a more balanced picture of the social and economic hardships faced by southern blacks. |
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