I still haven't seen many people connect these dots, so maybe I'm missing something obvious? * 20 million newly unemployed people in the past month * parts of country will stay locked down, others will reopen * therefore, we can expect Dust Bowl-like massive population shifts
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The Egan book for dust bowl is the best, also got a lot out of some interviews in Studs Terkel's Hard Times. Warmth of Other Suns if we wanna look at Great Migration (which includes midcentury appalachian out migration).
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There's also a doc I worked on about a post-migration county in WV a few years ago, which opens with some numbers: http://hollowdocumentary.com/
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