Do Indians Want to Leave Home?
An expert on India untangles the complexities of the country's migration

(Gallup work, recommended by Karen Detweiler)


http://gmj.gallup.com/content/147602/Indians-Leave-Home.aspx?utm_source=email&utm_medium=062011&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=newsletter#2
posted by Lloyd at 7:41 PM

It's not as convenient as the query script, but BLM has a query engine that pulls up the documents; http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx
posted by Lloyd at 9:04 AM

Chapter Two Outline

Introduction

• The connection between regional origins and behavior is not merely one of projection and extension of older regions into these new settlements, but rather a question to be explored. [Continuities and emergent syncretism.]
  
• Contrast of northern versus southern regional behavior models [revise]
  
• but regional differences existed in matrix of shared traditions and assumptions
  
• Why of interest? Uniqueness of Indiana and Mississippi; rural and agricultural; state versus state and migrant-stock versus migrant-stock within each state.
  
• What we are looking for: household location differences; work behavior differences, family behavior differences.
  

Geography of Household Settlement Choices

• The young man's frontier versus community migration theses.
  
• Boardinghouse culture
  
• Rural versus urban preferences; the Wade thesis
  
• Mississippi settlement densities
  
• Land sales and preemption
  
• Land and patriarchal control of self and environment
  

Jobs and Competencies

• Tension: occupational inertia versus emergent sector opportunities
  

Farmers

• Southern preference for farms in both states
  
• Discussion of Miss. county-level preference for agriculture, all four counties.
  

Merchants and Entrepreneurialism

• Burgeoning economy and contemporary preconceptions about Southern distaste for market economy employment.
  
• Mercantile significance of Indiana
  
• Southerners eagerly participated in Indiana mercantile activities; active but less so in Mississippi counties
  
• Southern clerks proportional to population; slightly less so in Indiana
  
• One explanation: clerkship as path to plantation ownership
  
• Youth paradox: attraction of plantation rather than aversion to commerce;
  
• Partnerships of Northerner and Southerner
  
• Examples of Northern commercial ambivalence: Fletcher, Beecher, Uncle Chester
  
• Viewed in light of eastern entrepreneurialism, small scale similarities
  
• Reflections on immigrant's disproportionate roles in commerce;
  
• Comparative examination of commercial elites; aggregate state differences
  
• Southerners active in industrial activities in both states, though Northern and Foreign over-represented.
  
• A lame summary
  

Marriage and Fertility

• Why looking at marriage and family is a powerful index, confirming overlap and modest differences.
  

Propositions about cultural meaning of fertility: (1) Late marriage = fewer kids (2) Age at marriage tied to anticipations of future (3) Companionate versus patriarchal fertility differentials

Fertility Behavior

• Brief for fertility as index of values; summary of trends -- similarities in early period, divergence both between states and within Mississippi over time.
  
• Marriage in Indiana and Mississippi followed economic cycles
  
• Role of parents viz. competency: Oliver Johnson
  
• Role of parents: Davis and Taylor
  
• Courtship and providing
  
• Competence tied to access to land
  
• Land and fertility related in Indiana and Miss.
  
• Towns as source of early fertility variations in Indiana
  
• Towns, information on contraception, and domesticity as fertility factors
  
• Indiana 1830s decline, Mississippi bifurcation
  
• Mississippi delta communities, land monopoly
  
• Homogenaety of Indiana county-to-county patterns versus Mississippi bifurcation
  
• Discussion of 1860 patterns; Indiana decline, Mississippi bifurcation.
  
• An intense one-paragraph discussion of family level fertility differences by occupation and birthplace.
  
• Within communities, occupation more important than birthplace;
  
• Peculiar variations in Mississippi counties
  
• The cap on town size as a factor in Mississippi's fertility
  
• Paradox of state-level differences and community and family level parallels.
  

Courtship and Marriage

[Shouldn't this come first?]

• Cross-group barriers to marriage; index of cultural gap
  
• Anecdotal: cross-regional marriages opposed; Johnson
  
• Opposition to cross-regional marriage: Gaines Roberts
  
• Mistrust: Quitman and Bingaman
  
• Cross-regional marriages quite common in practice, however
  
• At aggregate community scale, cross-regional marriages less than random, but not by much; some prejudices.
  
• But no decline in 1850s
  
• Implications: (1) Hybrid culture thesis needs to pay attention to this marriage phenom. (2) Miss. Urban cross-regional marriages a factor in secession reluctance (3) Existence of these patterns shows intentionality and conscious choice at everyday life level.
  
• Overall summary
  

posted by Lloyd at 8:07 AM

In the article by John Ehrenberg, "Equality, Democracy, and Community from Tocqueville to Putnam," (p. 55) in McLean, et al, Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and 'Bowling Alone' (2002) he quotes Tocqueville on the ways in which local government, specifically road-building, helped to foster community attachments and political practice.

"if it is proposed to make a road cross the end of his estate, he will see at a glance that there is a connection between this small public affair and his greatest private affairs." Tocqueville, Democracy in America II, 103-4.
posted by Lloyd at 12:48 PM