My theory is that Trump made the North "stink" a bit because he's from NY and flipped a bunch of rust belt states. Plus the South is growing very rapidly.
I mostly just think it's that the south is growing rapidly, and the way in which it's growing is that it's becoming a lot more diverse. Southern cities are known for good food, music, ect, so it makes sense that people would move there rather than to the midwest.
Trump has nothing to do with it, as the rust belt was never really hipster in anyway, minneapolis and chicago are the more hipster midwestern cities anyways. Although the new south mostly does describe highly educated black people moving from all over the US to Atlanta, whereas the "hipster wave" was mostly white suburban kids returning to big cities essentially everywhere. The later describes what happens in Austin, Nashville, Ashville, ect, though.
My theory is that Trump made the North "stink" a bit because he's from NY and flipped a bunch of rust belt states. Plus the South is growing very rapidly.
I mostly just think it's that the south is growing rapidly, and the way in which it's growing is that it's becoming a lot more diverse. Southern cities are known for good food, music, ect, so it makes sense that people would move there rather than to the midwest.
Trump has nothing to do with it, as the rust belt was never really hipster in anyway, minneapolis and chicago are the more hipster midwestern cities anyways. Although the new south mostly does describe highly educated black people moving from all over the US to Atlanta, whereas the "hipster wave" was mostly white suburban kids returning to big cities essentially everywhere. The later describes what happens in Austin, Nashville, Ashville, ect, though.
The South has always been more diverse.
The growth and the diversity also started under Bush, going back 20 years now. Trump/the Rust Belt flip was a sort of ceremonial coup de grace.