EDUCATIONAL SELECTIVITY OF NET MIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH.

This article focuses on educational selectivity of net migration from the south. A recent bibliography on internal migration in the United States during the period 1940-1957 lists 29 references on selectivity of internal migration. A few of these sources deal with educational selectivity of internal migration and thus provides with base lines and hypotheses for further study. However, none of them deals specifically with education selectivity of migration to and from the southern region of the United States, the specific focus of this article. The focus of this article is on net migration during the decade 1940-1950 among people 15 years or more of age in 1940 by region, residence, age, sex, color, and educational level. The basic data are taken from the United States Census of Population, 1940-1950. The method of analysis is the now familiar residual or survival rate method. The strengths and weaknesses of this method have been discussed by a number of demographers. There are 1,728 primary cells in the tables showing the results of the analysis.