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Demographic Changes In American History Essay

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Over the course of American History, there has always been a large demographic change within the states. Weather is be movements within the American people or immigration from other countries, there is always a change. But with these changes there are always consequences because of the causes. One event in recent history where this could be demonstrated is the population movements between 1945 to 1985 it went from change in Suburbanization, to the Sun Belt, and Immigration from Latin and Asian countries. To begin with, throughout the years of 1945 and 1985 there has been a large change within the demographics in suburbanization. The cause of this major change was the rize of the upper middle class and the returning veterans of World War II. More people began to get higher educations in return they would get higher wages than the lower class. The people who started to getting payed more started to move down to the suburbs because they no longer wanted to live in the ugly ghettos where the lower …show more content…

The air conditioner had changed everything, many people disliked the cold and decided it was better for them to move to the west and the south where there were warm areas. Without it ever being to cold or to hot; if it ever turned out to be too hot people would just turn on their wonderful air conditioner and bam there cold! Also people began to move because the east has high expenses with low wages, the “sun belt” area however there was a better living for people. The consequences however was the spending and attention the government had to give toward these areas. The house market began to expand, making houses much more expensive. There was also a large representational difference in the house of representatives now between the west and

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