Does the modern South spring up without TVA, Manhattan Project, Space Race?

Those were still poor areas til the 90s

Then the migration towards the South started and those areas are nice and had white collar jobs so people moved there

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Those were still poor areas til the 90s Then the migration towards the South started and those areas are nice and had white collar jobs so people moved there

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Some of it was also migration down from the hills to the cities. The transition from manufacturing to service (1980s-present) caused a lot of small towns to essentially become non-existent. Those that moved to the city got not-quite-as-high-paying-but-much-steadier jobs. Those that stayed behind in the small towns were often either wealthy farmers or the people who stayed to teach the wealth farmers children’s schools.

So people migrated, shifted behaviors, and became more urbanized, bending the poverty curve down a bit.

2 words:

Air Conditioning

Papa got a job with the TVA, he bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

A/C

When a/c became mass produced, a wave of Yankee professionals were willing to move to the Deep South.