Journal article
Region, Migration, and Attitudes in the United States
Social science quarterly, Vol.78(1), pp.83-95
03/01/1997
Abstract
Objective. Over the past few decades millions of people have migrated between the American South and other regions. This study compares the attitudes of whites who have migrated between regions with the attitudes of native southern and nonsouthern whites. Methods. We use the umulative General Social Surveys data (1972-1994) to examine the attitudes of four groups: native white southerners; white nonsoutherners who moved to the South; native white nonsoutherners; and white southerners who left the region. We use fifteen questions about race, religion, gender roles, sexual matters, and civic values as attitudinal measures. Results. Nonsoutherners who have moved to the South hold almost the same values as other nonsoutherners, suggesting that these migrants have not adopted southern opinions. Southerners who have relocated outside the South, however, hold attitudes that are closer to those of nonsoutherners than to those of southerners. This pattern persists when the data are segmented into two periods, 1972-1983 and 1984-1994. Conclusions. Placed in the framework of the theoretical literature on migration, southern migrants seem to be assimilating into nonsouthern culture and nonsouthern migrants appear to be retaining their views, leaving the South a more pluralistic region.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Region, Migration, and Attitudes in the United States
- Creators
- Tom W. RiceMeredith L. Pepper
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social science quarterly, Vol.78(1), pp.83-95
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- ISSN
- 0038-4941
- eISSN
- 1540-6237
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1997
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983989290102771
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