title: The role of long distance migration in the rural renaissance, in gentrification, and in growth of the Sunbelt.
abstract: The author "has examined trends in interstate migration during the 1970s for the four regions of the United States and, in particular, explored the relationship of this migration with nonmetropolitan expansion and the return to the city movement.  The data show that the former trend is a very real one which has persisted throughout the decade and that population growth through interstate migration in nonmetropolitan America is, on balance, the result of nonblacks moving to the South from elsewhere in the nation.  Except in the West, central cities continue to experience substantial losses of population through interstate migration.  Interstate migration continues to be directed toward suburbs, and is especially vigorous in the West."  Data are from the March 1975 and March 1979 Current Population Surveys.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Serow
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity; D005843:Geography; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D013383:Suburban Population; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Americas; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Ethnic Groups; Geographic Factors; Migration; Migration, Internal--changes; Nonmetropolitan Population; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Rural-urban Migration; Spatial Distribution; Suburbanization; Turnaround Migration; United States; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization