By William W. Falk
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In fact, many may not have benefited at all. Blacks, women, and people living in rural areas have, in varying degrees, received little or none of the job opportunities and economic affluence that has washed over the region. The quality of life and opportunity for improvement of these "people left behind" have remained essentially unchanged over the Page 3 last fifty years. Many southerners still live at or near the poverty level and they continue to represent both a tragic waste of human potential and a social and economic burden on those who have ridden the crest of economic development.
Page 5 In the late 1800s, the textile industries that formed the mainspring of the New South's growth took root in the region. Small textile mills and mill villages were built in rural areas along the rivers and streams of the Piedmont in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. By the mid-1920s, North Carolina surpassed Massachusetts as the leading textile-producing state in the nation. The workforce in southern textile mills was overwhelmingly white, young, and female. Blacks were excluded from all but the poorest of industrial jobs.
In other words, economic opportunities and labor force characteristics vary as much within the region as between the Sunbelt and the declining areas of the North. We believe that a large measure of the industrial and occupational variation within the South is due to rural/urban differences in patterns of development. Consequently, knowledge of the rural/urban dimension is critical not only to understanding structural changes in the southern economy, but also for designing and implementing policies to assist lagging areas in their development efforts.