1. Where do people migrate within a country?
Key Issue 2
Where do people migrate within a country?

2. Interregional Migration
United States shifting population center
Population center- is the average location of everyone in the country
1790- Chesapeake Bay (east of Baltimore)
2000- Missouri
What has caused this move?

3. Changing Center of Population
1790: Hugging the Coast
Colonial-era
Tied to coast with links to Europe
: Crossing the Appalachians
Erie Canal b/n New York and Great Lakes
Large amounts of land equaled low price
: Rushing to the Gold
Skipped mid-west b/c of dry climate and potential gold in Cali
“Great American Desert” labeled the Great Plains

4. 1900-1940: Filling the Great Plains
Westward slowed as population backtracked
Advances in technology allowed land to be cultivated
Barbed wire, steel plow, water pump, wind mill
: Moving South
Job opportunities and warmer climate
Interregional antagonism with the NE
Rustbelt vs. Sunbelt

5. U.S. Interregional Migration, 1995

7. Migration b/n Regions in world’s largest Country
Russia is very resource rich
Population centers did not match location of resources and jobs at construction sites were not filled
Soviet gov’t had to stimulate interregional migration
Siberia- fossil fuels, minerals, and forests
Higher wages, more paid holidays, earlier retirement to induce voluntary migration
Far North climate to harsh and most migrants did not stay

8. Brasilia, Brazil
Brasilia was created as Brazil’s new capital in 1960 and since then has attracted thousands of migrants in search of jobs.

10. Other Countries Brazil
Encouraged interregional migration by moving capital from Rio to Brasilia
Migration was forced and worked slowly
Recently thousands have migrated to Brasilia in search for jobs

11. Interregional Migration other countries
Canada
From East to West
1900’s looking for gold
China
Rural to Urban
In search for jobs
Gov’t restrictions recently lifted

12. Intraregional Migration
Intraregional migration- moving within the same region
Far more common than interregional migration
3 major types of intraregional migration
Rural to Urban
Urban to Suburban
Metropolitan to Nonmetropolitan

13. Rural to Urban Areas
Began in the 1800’s during the Industrial Revolution in U.S. and Europe
% of U.S. considered urban %
Today 75+%
Pushed by declining agriculture
Pulled by economic opportunities
Service industries and factory jobs

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15. Urban to Suburban Popular in MDC’s
Pulled by suburban lifestyle (NOT Jobs)
Detached house
Private yard
Garage/driveway
Better schools
Enabled by automobiles, trains, etc.

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17. Urban to rural areas?
Counterurbanization- net migration from urban to rural areas
More of lifestyle choice (luxury of quiet life)
Modern communications and transportation make this possible (globalization)
Slowed during recession b/c of bank loans and no home buyers

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