The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right

Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

“…The US westward expansion, promoted by the di usion of the railroad networks especially between 1860 and 1900 (Fogel, 1964;Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016), continued well into the 20 th century. The first four decades of the 20 th century were also marked by the Great Migration of 5 million whites and 1.5 million African Americans from the US South to the rest of the country (Gregory, 2006;Bazzi et al, 2023a). Internal migration patterns changed in the 1930s, due to the Great Depression (Rosenbloom, 2002;Fishback et al, 2006) and environmental shocks like the Dust Bowl (Hornbeck, 2012(Hornbeck, , 2023.…”

“…Finally, to the best of our knowledge, we provide the first piece of systematic evidence in support of the long-standing idea that historical migration patterns in the US were influenced by climate similarity (Coolidge, 1926;Steckel, 1982;Fischer, 1989). 7 By shedding light on a new, important driver of migration-namely, climate similarity-at a critical point in American history, we also contribute to the large literature on US internal (Bazzi et al, 2020(Bazzi et al, , 2023aZimran, 2023) and international (Eriksson, 2020;Abramitzky and Boustan, 2022;Collins and Zimran, 2023) migration between 1850and 1940 As early as the 1600s, climate matching was an important consideration for English migrants to North America and the West Indies, who expressed "profound anxiety" about the health and productivity impacts of climates that diverged from England's temperate climate. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who founded the Province of Maine in 1622, argued that New England was "more suitable to the nature of our people, who neither finde content in the colder Climates, nor health in the hotter; but (as hearbs and plants) a ect their native temperature, and prosper kindly no where else" (Kupperman, 1984).…”

Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

“…The US westward expansion, promoted by the di usion of the railroad networks especially between 1860 and 1900 (Fogel, 1964;Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016), continued well into the 20 th century. The first four decades of the 20 th century were also marked by the Great Migration of 5 million whites and 1.5 million African Americans from the US South to the rest of the country (Gregory, 2006;Bazzi et al, 2023a). Internal migration patterns changed in the 1930s, due to the Great Depression (Rosenbloom, 2002;Fishback et al, 2006) and environmental shocks like the Dust Bowl (Hornbeck, 2012(Hornbeck, , 2023.…”

“…Finally, to the best of our knowledge, we provide the first piece of systematic evidence in support of the long-standing idea that historical migration patterns in the US were influenced by climate similarity (Coolidge, 1926;Steckel, 1982;Fischer, 1989). 7 By shedding light on a new, important driver of migration-namely, climate similarity-at a critical point in American history, we also contribute to the large literature on US internal (Bazzi et al, 2020(Bazzi et al, , 2023aZimran, 2023) and international (Eriksson, 2020;Abramitzky and Boustan, 2022;Collins and Zimran, 2023) migration between 1850and 1940 As early as the 1600s, climate matching was an important consideration for English migrants to North America and the West Indies, who expressed "profound anxiety" about the health and productivity impacts of climates that diverged from England's temperate climate. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who founded the Province of Maine in 1622, argued that New England was "more suitable to the nature of our people, who neither finde content in the colder Climates, nor health in the hotter; but (as hearbs and plants) a ect their native temperature, and prosper kindly no where else" (Kupperman, 1984).…”

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

“…First, we contribute to the literature on assimilation and cultural transmission. Economists have analyzed immigrationinduced changes in preferences of the local population (Bazzi et al, 2021;Boelmann et al, 2021;Bursztyn et al, 2021;Giuliano & Tabellini, 2020), the influence of emigrants on the cultural dynamics of the origin community (Barsbai et al, 2017;Rapoport et al, 2021), the evolution of immigrants' preferences (Abramitzky et al, 2020a;Fernández & Fogli, 2009), and the effects of forced migration on refugees' human capital investment (Bauer et al, 2013;Becker et al, 2020).…”