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northern and eastern portions of the South white and 

 black workers alike moved out into the war plants of 

 the East and Midwest. No one has counted that exodus, 

 but in many localities it amounted to a mass movement. 

 In the Deep South the workers flocked a quarter of a 

 million of them and their families into the shipyards 

 at Mobile and New Orleans, Panama City, Florida, and 

 Pascagoula, Mississippi. Throughout the whole area the 

 familiar shift from farms and villages to the camps and 

 airfields and the new industrial centers often went coun- 

 tercurrent to the main streams of labor migration. 



Amid all the uncertainties of getting these hundreds 

 of thousands back on the peacetime job, two facts ap- 

 pear to be unmistakable. First, many Southern war- 

 born enterprises have little or no chance of peacetime 

 survival. Second, many of the Southern workers will 

 eventually return to their home localities. 



The first premise is categorically true. The big ex- 

 plosives plants will undoubtedly be closed down and 

 the big shipyards cannot continue at anything like their 

 wartime scale of operations. Together these were the 

 greatest employers, so that most Southern war workers 

 must seek new jobs. Because of the naturally isolated 

 position of the explosives plants and the inevitable 

 waterfront location of the shipyards, most of them must 

 remove from the scenes of their warwork. 



The second fact admits some qualifications. Not all 

 of the workers who have migrated North and East will 



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