Hot historical synthesis take of the day: if I were going to write a Great Big Book on the United States from 1900-1945 (I’m not) the through-line would be how the Great Migration drove the big changes in national politics.
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the thing is it’s obviously right and yet I don’t think anyone’s quite written that book yet
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I’m certainly not going to write it, but I’d definitely read it
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You could write a whole lot of the Great Big Book on American culture in that era with the same through-line.
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Right, and it should probably really extend to 1968.
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Wait, Great Migration as in European immigration to the US or GM as in African-American migration out of the South?
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the latter
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