Abstract
During the 1960’s an unprecedented effort was made by the federal government to promote economic development in depressed areas of the nation. Most of this effort was focused on the nonmetropolitan South, where the high rates of poverty, underemployment, and outmigration (especially of blacks to the major metropolitan ghettoes) has been seen as a national problem. While this federally subsidized rural renaissance has had considerable impact upon whites, there is increasing evidence that blacks have not shared equitably in the employment growth and the resultant reductions in poverty, underemployment, and outmigration. A significant part of the failure of blacks to share equitably in the economic gains can be explained by the tendency for employment growth within the nonmetropolitan South to locate outside of heavily black areas. The purpose of this study is to analyze this phenomenon, i.e., the extent to which it has been happening and some of the more important explanatory factors.
Highlights
During the 1960's an unprecedented effort was made by the federal government to promote economic development in depressed areas of the nation
Most of this effort was focused on the nonmetropolitan South, where the high rates of poverty, underemployment, and outmigration has been seen as a national problem.^ Partially as a result of these federal investments in the economic and social overhead capital of rural com munities, the nonmetropolitan South experienced considerable expan sion in nonagricultural employment during the 1960-1970 decade
This was especially evident with manufacturing, the growth rate of which was more rapid in nonmetropohtan than metropohtan areas of the
Summary
During the 1960's an unprecedented effort was made by the federal government to promote economic development in depressed areas of the nation. Most of this effort was focused on the nonmetropolitan South, where the high rates of poverty, underemployment, and outmigration (especially of blacks to the major metropolitan ghettoes) has been seen as a national problem.^ Partially as a result of these federal investments in the economic and social overhead capital of rural com munities, the nonmetropolitan South experienced considerable expan sion in nonagricultural employment during the 1960-1970 decade This was especially evident with manufacturing, the growth rate of which was more rapid in nonmetropohtan than metropohtan areas of the. The analysis is based primarily upon 1960 and 1970 census data for a sample of 244 nonmetropolitan counties in six Southern states(Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina).®
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