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@DyanneVaught @wagonweill I wouldn’t be surprised if at the time, considering the information technologies in service, information related to actual economic prospects was quite imperfect. If true, representations instead of actual data play a large role in people’s decisions.
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@DyanneVaught @wagonweill On the other side, the fact that Southern states were slavery states was à probably well known fact. So maybe migrants had some sort of representation that they had better chances to make it in other places?Permalink
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@DyanneVaught @wagonweill Maybe network effects also played a role: if a population of (let’s say) Norwegians settled on place X, I guess it is more likely to attract more Norwegians in X because of networks (bc information flows would be of a better quality).Permalink
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@DyanneVaught @wagonweill If at a given point, the South somewhat stopped to attract migrants, it could maybe snowball up to the point most new migrants would go elsewhere, making the effect of the imperfect information (on the lower attractiveness of the South for migrants) even largerPermalink
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@DyanneVaught @wagonweill But those are just random thoughts after a pretty long day, so I wouldn’t put too much weight on them! (And I’m still very little aware of this period of US history, even if I just spent quite some time on Wikipedia about it 😀)Permalink
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