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Doesn't really answer the question of why move to the South though.
I get it, air pollution is definitely a reason to move anywhere, but why choose the South? Why not West?
People have family and support networks and communities which look like them that they can move to.
A lot of the west doesn't have that that due to historic and ongoing racism.
Oh yea, I'm sure the South is way better on the racism front :/
I get when you can't leave a shitty place because of money or whatever, but moving to an actively and increasingly hostile place regardless of family/support networks doesn't seem like the best move :/
You're missing their point. The west doesn't have as large of a black community as the rest of the country because of things like Oregon being founded by white supremacists with a no black people allowed rule. The south might be more racist, but it has a large black community because of slavery.