Locational Choice in the Antebellum South
研究了内战前美国南方家庭迁移决策中的经济与非经济因素，发现非奴隶主并未被推向劣等区位，而奴隶主的区位选择与经济特征关联较弱。
This article examines the economic and noneconomic factors that influenced the migration decisions of antebellum Southern households. It appears that nonslaveowners were neither pushed to inferior locations nor did they move independently of the economic consequences. For slaveowners, the observed links between locational choice and the economic characteristics of locations are weaker. The proportion of whites in a location's population was positively associated with the choice of a location for the nonslaveowners. This association was not found for any other group.