Every year,
newspapers and trade publications report on state to state migratory trends and
every year blue states are the big losers.
If given a chance to escape a progressive utopia, many can’t pack their bags
fast enough. The obvious reasons are
lack of economic opportunities, high taxation, oppressive regulations and a
hostile political environment.
Liberals try to explain away this exodus by
dismissing the South’s success on the advent of air conditioning and massive
infrastructure projects. Common sense
would dictate these projects are needed to accommodate all the damn Yankees that
have moved here and air conditioning has been ubiquitous since the 1950’s. If today’s migratory trends were this strong
in the mid 20th century, only teat squawkers and crickets would be
chirping in Yankeeland.
The United States has probably witnessed only one
other contemporary migratory pattern like this and it was during the time
period between 1910 and the 1960’s. This
mass exodus of blacks, and poor whites, to northern industrial cities was
called the “Great Migration.” The
reasons for this exodus are the same ones I gave in the first paragraph. Here is an excerpt from A History of African
Americans in North Carolina that should make politicians and open border
advocates hair stand on end:
With the outbreak of war, foreign immigration to the
United States dwindled from 1,218,000 in 1914 to only 110,618 in 1918, creating
a severe labor shortage. Wages in
northern industries were appreciably higher.
The average daily wage for a black farm laborer in the South was
$1.00. Wages in the North averaged $2.00
to $4.00 per day. In New Bern, for
example, a black laborer in a sawmill or cotton oil mill earned $1.50 and $1.90
per day. In contrast, a black North
Carolinian employed in a Pennsylvania steel plant received 30 cents per hour
and could work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
His income over a two-week period totaled $48.00 to $54.00.
People don’t leave their family and friends because
of air conditioning and roads. They move
because they are in desperate need of opportunities and want to improve their
lives. Period.
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