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Hillbilly Elegy
(Edited)
- Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.
p. 21.5migration = movement of people from one place to another
- A special policy encouraged wholesale migration: Applicants with a family member working at Armco would move to the top of the employment list. Armco didn't just hire the young men of Appalachian Kentucky; they actively encouraged those men to bring their extended families.
p. 27.9
- Researchers have documented two major waves of migration from Appalachia to the industrial powerhouse economies in the Midwest.
p. 28.1
- Precise numbers are tough to pin down because studies typically measure "net out-migration"—as in the total number of people who left minus the number of people who came in.
p. 28.5
- The scale of the migration was staggering.
p. 28.8
- In the 1950s, thirteen of every one hundred Kentucky residents migrated out of the state.
p. 28.8migrated = moved
- Some areas saw even greater emigration: Harlan County, for example, which was brought to fame in an Academy Award–winning documentary about coal strikes, lost 30 percent of its population to migration.
p. 28.9migration = movement of people from one place to another
- As one study noted, "Migration did not so much destroy neighborhoods and families as transport them."
p. 30.1
- So important was this road in the massive hillbilly migration that Dwight Yoakam penned a song about northerners who castigated Appalachian children for learning the wrong three R's: "Reading, Rightin', Rt. 23."
p. 36.9
- In many ways, the town where I was born was largely the same as the one my grandparents had migrated to four decades earlier.
p. 47.7migrated = moved
- Racially, there are lots of white and black people (the latter the product of an analogous great migration) but few others.
p. 48.6migration = movement of people from one place to another
- His father (and my grandfather), Don C. Bowman, also migrated from eastern Kentucky to southwest Ohio for work.
p. 90.8migrated = moved
- As millions migrated north to factory jobs, the communities that sprouted up around those factories were vibrant but fragile: When the factories shut their doors, the people left behind were trapped in towns and cities that could no longer support such large populations with high-quality work.
p. 144.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(migrate) move from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)