ISSN:
1467-9787
Quelle:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Thema:
Geographie
,
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Notizen:
. Prevailing theories wrongly attribute post-1950 convergence of state per capita incomes to (1) neoclassical adjustment mechanisms, (2) institutional sclerosis, and (3) southern industrialization. But convergence-essentially a weakening of southern poverty–resulted mainly from the South's overcoming its legacy of slavery: the sharecropper-tenant system, agricultural dependence, high black population percentages, poor education, and low wage rates. Sharecropping was the dominant feature; abject poverty among sharecroppers dragged southern income to its knees. Sharecropping's collapse and attendant South-to-North migration affected the legacy's other features in ways that raised income. Manufacturing growth and transport improvements caused relative income in the West to decline.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.1995.tb01292.x
