How did the American population shift in the 1940s and 1950s?
A. many people left the city to live in the suburbs
B. large numbers of poor, southern whites migrated to northeastern cities for work
C. many people left the sunbelt region for the west
D. urban life became more focused on heavily-populated downtowns

Question

How did the American population shift in the 1940s and 1950s?
A. many people left the city to live in the suburbs
B. large numbers of poor, southern whites migrated to northeastern cities for work
C. many people left the sunbelt region for the west
D. urban life became more focused on heavily-populated downtowns

isry98 · Answer

What are you leaning towards?

anonymous · Answer

I'm leaning toward A

isry98 · Answer

Think about it though was agriculture as prominent as before?

anonymous · Answer

But didn't a lot of white people move out of the cities because a lot of black people had migrated there?

anonymous · Answer

Or is it D?

isry98 · Answer

Here is what is known for sure population density of cities increased at this time

isry98 · Answer

so from that. what do you think is the best indicator of this fact?

anonymous · Answer

B? (I remember reading something about the population becoming more evenly spread out throughout the U.S.)

anonymous · Answer

I'm getting confused.. Sorry

isry98 · Answer

If you are getting confused it is my bad... The difficult thing about this question is differentiating between b and d

isry98 · Answer

The reason I don't believe it is B. is because it specifically states that large amounts of white people moved to the cities which we can see from history was not entirely true... I personally believe the answer is D.

anonymous · Answer

Thank you

isry98 · Answer

no problem I hope you are not as confused now

anonymous · Answer

It was actually A .-.

isry98 · Answer

really...

isry98 · Answer

hmmm

anonymous · Answer

Yep

isry98 · Answer

I am so sorry... it doesn't really make sense I must have missed something in the question...

anonymous · Answer

It's okay :) thank you for your help anyway ^~^

isry98 · Answer

It is true though that more people moved to the cities during that time...

anonymous · Answer

I think just that a lot of white people left when the african americans migrated to the cities and I guess that's what the question/answer were addressing :)

isry98 · Answer

well if that is the case then yeah thats true but that is why I thought b. was wrong they must have been focusing only on the white population...

anonymous · Answer

Yep I guess

isry98 · Answer

man i wish I would have known that my bad...