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Why Do People Migrate Within a Country

Why Do People Migrate Within a Country. Key Issue #4. American West- most famous example of large scale interregional migration in United States Population center: average location of everyone in the country, the center of “population gravity”

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Why Do People Migrate Within a Country

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  1. Why Do People Migrate Within a Country Key Issue #4

  2. American West- most famous example of large scale interregional migration in United States • Population center: average location of everyone in the country, the center of “population gravity” • Appalachian Mountains were the first intervening obstacle

  3. Colonial Period: • Population center around Chesapeake Bay area and Baltimore Maryland • Depended on shipping and export raw materials • Hostile indigenous people hinder the move westward

  4. 1830 • Moved west of Moorefield West Virginia • Obtain large land at cheap price • Moved as west as the Mississippi River for fertile land • Building of canals improved transportation • Erie Canal- between NYC and Great Lakes • Diffusion of steam-powered boats

  5. 1880 • West of Cincinnati, Ohio • Population center moved rapidly west to California • Made it to 98th parallel; west trees ran out and prairies takeover, very little rainfall; unsuited for agriculture • Declared un farmable • In fact some of the richest farmland in the United States • Railroads permitted settlers on the Great Plains to transport their products to customers in East Coast cities

  6. NOW • Recent growth of South • Migrated for job opportunities and environmental reasons • “Sunbelt”- South • “Rustbelt”-Northeast and Midwest

  7. Migration Between Regions in other Countries

  8. Migration Between Regions in other Countries

  9. Migration within one Region

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