Abstract
Increasingly since the 1960s and 1970s, population migration trends within the United States have been driven by the development of a second western population core. The burgeoning concentration of population along the Pacific Coast has fueled the emergence of a significant interconnected system of western metropolitan areas that increasingly rivals the primacy of the long-established northeastern core. During the 1990s the dispersal of population downward within the western urban hierarchy supplanted a much diminished Frostbelt-to-Sunbelt trend to become the most salient aspect of national population redistribution. The Southern California and Bay Area conurbations are serving as the primary pivots fueling the extension of a western urban subsystem. In this study we use county-level IRS matched tax return data and the newly defined Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) units to explore the recent (1995-2000) flows of U.S. internal migrants within the functional urban system of the western United States. We present maps based on demographic effectiveness and on a new migration impact measure to examine and illustrate the evolving spatial patterns characteristic of current population redistribution across the West.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 43-64 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Population Research and Policy Review |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2008 |
Keywords
- Demographic effectiveness
- Inward population redistribution
- Migration impact
- Urban hierarchy
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Demography
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law