Reviewed by Clive Webb | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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*The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America.* By James N. Gregory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv + 446 pp. Tables, graphs, maps, photos, notes, appendices, and index. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
One of the foremost influences shaping the national identity of the United States is the fact that it is a country of immigrants. While there is an immense literature on this subject, scholars have paid less attention to the impact of internal migration on American culture and society. In this important study, James Gregory argues that the relocation of twenty million southerners to the North and West during the twentieth century had a transformative effect on the United States.	1
The opening chapter provides a revealing statistical overview of southern migration. Utilizing the Integrated Public Use Micro Data Series, Gregory discloses an essential fact obscured by scholarly concentration on the southern black exodus: although the proportion of African Americans who moved northward was higher, in absolute numbers there were far more white migrants. On the other hand, while most African Americans settled permanently in the North, whites were more prone to return to the South.	. . .

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