re: Animated map of the change in US population density from 1790-2010

Somehow this animation should be filled with white guilt

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The late 1890s into the 1910s show some depopulation in the Mississippi Delta Counties. Mechanization replaces human farmers.

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This is 100% false, there was very little mechanization of farming happening in the South at this time, especially for cotton and tobacco. Nearly all of the agricultural production was still based on human and animal labor.

No, this was the start of the Great Migration, due almost entirely to the institutionalization of Jim Crow, the peak of lynchings, and general lack of any economic opportunity for blacks in the South other than sharecropping. Black folks fled in mass to the North for jobs, and the (sometimes false) hope of less racial discrimination.

All the while running off or killing my people. BTW. Thanks for the free medical, dental and vision insurance for life.

That's actually Natchez. And yes, cotton.