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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2019 Mar 26;81:117–131. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.03.009

Table 5.

Count and proportion of return migrants who return to own or parents’ birth state by race and return migration group.

Migration Status Black White Total
Lifetime return migrant Generational return migrant Lifetime return migrant Generational return migrant Lifetime return migrant Generational return migrant
Return to birth state or parents’ birth state 189 (48.6%) 289 (21.0%) 3556 (53.7%) 3763 (21.8%) 3745 (53.4%) 4052 (21.8%)
Return to other southern state (not birth state) 200 (51.4%) 1084 (79.0%) 3064 (46.3%) 13,489 (78.2%) 3264 (46.6%) 14,573 (78.2%)
Total 389 1373 6620 17,252 7009 18,625

Source: 1940 Census data linked to 2000 Census data.