While millions of southern black Americans famously went 'up north' or 'out west' between 1895 and 1925, most stayed and had children within the broadly defined South.
They still moved about alright, many of them - but moved from state to state along the horizontally-lying Black Belt where Cotton had been King and the black population was the densest.
Similarly, while two million Jews left The Pale of the Russian Empire in the same period to flee the deadly anti-Jewish pogroms , most stayed and with a similarly high birthrates, maintained their same percentage of the - growing - Russian population.
It took first WWII's Holocaust and perhaps more importantly, decades of postwar communist-sanctioned anti-semitic abuse, to reduce the Jewish population of Russia from being a majority of the world's Jewish population at the end of the 19th century to today where Russian Jews are barely 1% of the world's Jews.
Contrast this to America's blacks, many of whom today are moving back to the same Deep South their parents and grandparents once fled to avoid government-sanctioned anti-black pogroms ...
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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