Will Hurricane Katrina cause another "Great Migration"?
As UAW-LSP lawyers, everyday most of us have conttact with someone who was the product of the "great migration". From the 1930s to the 1950s, a large number of people from the south, especially blacks and poor whites, went north looking for employment in the industrial factories. (Actually there were two migrations, a general migration north, and a "dust bowl" migration, frequently ending in California.) The northward migration can be seen in the development of blues music; first as Delta Blues, then Memphis Blues, Chicago Blues and then Detroit R&B. In the years since, with the spread of air conditioning, there has actually been a greater migration south, but the southbound migration has been more gradual.
Because many of the employers of Katrina victims were wiped out, the resettled displaced persons may become permanent residents of their new communities. As this article mentions, from a societal point of view, we need to make sure that we don't sow the seeds of new ghettos.
Katrina could prompt new black "great migration" - Yahoo! News
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
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