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THE BATTALION Page 3B MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1979 Northern migration of poor dowing down, study shows oncern si| ( failure to a ior to diet : to providf clothing, logic fault, :e that (lie e is whetlj ition causf is and eii United Press International KINGSTREE, S.C. — For ousands of poor people from the uth, most of them black, the ban centers of the North are no nger viewed as the land of oppor- nity where they can claim their irtion of the American dream. The vast migration to the North train test; ith jobs in steel mills and auto fac- for an eijf ries following World War II ap- to be ending. Thousands of poor blacks, and linatinglj hites, have returned home. And tment atj tany others who would have gone nd John It irth just 10 years ago are staying ome now, satisfied with good jobs idental! d when id a better lifestyle offered by the to sonnet ml conomic boom in the Sun Belt fates. This is true even for those on wel- re, such as 33-year-old Lilly leasar. While her six children ran in and it of her sparsely furnished house r which she pays $11 a month, easar talked softly about how glad was to leave the “hustle and went ng; M ^ campjt, jostle” of New York City. “I don’t miss it a bit, said Ceasar, reed-thin, black woman clad in a icy em, orn housecoat and slippers. “I was fed up, said the woman ho fled South Carolina in 1966 be- • i> Muse she “didn’t want to spend the ^ :stof my life working on the farm. ’ de guarii king, m But the crime in New York, the cold weather and the lack of open spaces for her children brought her back. Ceasar, a welfare mother who spent 12 years living in the slums of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brooklyn, returned — without her husband — to poor, rural Williamsburg County last year. For Ceasar, New York City was not the land of opportunity so she came home. The Census Bureau says people like her represent a rel atively new trend, poor people mov ing to the South for jobs and a better lifestyle. There’s also another trend, studies show, and this one is illus trated by the case of Linwood Cooper, who was born poor but got a college degree and found a good job in the South. Cooper, an articulate college graduate who grew up as the son of a domestic in this tobacco-growing county, is a case worker at the De partment of Social Services’ food stamp office — the same office Ceasar visits. With his $11,000 annual salary and his wife’s $7,100 salary, life for the 28-year-old county employee is a lot different from the days when dinner sometimes consisted of “no thing but bread and water on the t^ble. ” Except for a stint in Columbia, S.C. where Cooper attended Be nedict College — working full time to put himself through school — Cooper has spent his whole life in Williamsburg County. The trends are documented in a 1978 study by Larry Long, “Inter regional Migration of the Poor. ’’ The study notes what appears to be a reversal of a pattern that began more than half a century ago when poor southerners, many of whom were black and politically dis enfranchised, flocked to the urban Northeast in search of the American dream. Long’s study, which has a broad definition of the South including states as far north as Delaware and Maryland and as far West as Okla homa, reveals that until 1971 more poor people were leaving the South than coming into the region. But between 1971 and 1975, an J “unrecognized shift” of net immi gration of people below the poverty level began to occur. In 1975-77, j the South had an estimated net im migration of 127,000. Long noted that while the change in the migration figures stemmed in part from poor people coming into the South, the most important change resulted from the poor who opted to remain in their homeland. 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Arens of the State University of New York in a new book, “The Man-Eating Myth, published by the prestigious Oxford University Press. “Despite the massive literature alluding to cannibalism. ” he wrote, the author finds that there is no satisfactory firsthand account of this rolvedin act as a socially-approved custom in any part of the world. ” Arens concedes that many people have reported cannibalism but, he argues, there has never been an unimpeachable eye witness to the practice. In other words, one person may have eaten another from time to time but nowhere is there absolute proof that any tribe or adiatioiii nation regarded it as a part of their way of life or cuisine. Anthropologist Edmund Leach was one of those quick to take issue t Site woi with Arens. He said in the pages of New Society that he found it hard to believe that the author was serious. He went on: “It is perfectly true that, as Arens notes, cannibalism is a horror stifled,! story fantasy which may be encountered in all parts of the world, oed by*Innumerable anthropologists, including myself, have been assured by their informants that “they, ” those sub-human monsters who live irren, pr on the other side of the hill, regularly engage in cannibalism, incest, bestiality and all manner of other atrocities. “It is also true that many early travelers were very gullible and naive about such matters. Indeed the missionaries often had a vested interest in exhibiting the local natives as utterly depraved. Many of the cases of cannibalism which are recorded in the ethnographic literature of earlier centuries are certainly fictitious. But to go to the opposite extreme and pretend that there is no real evidence for cannibalism at all is quite absurd.” Leach points out that cannibalism is a fashionable subject for con troversy among American antropologists at present because, he said, two of them, Michael Harner and Marvin Harris, “have been plug ging the improbable thesis that the human sacrifices which were prevalent among the Aztec at the time of Cortez’s conquest of Mexico were a crucial source of animal protein among the population and that it was a general shortage of such protein which explains the preva lence of cannibalism among many groups of Indians in Central and South Axuetxca at that period.” faction “ lipmni ess) -111 Boyett St. (Next Door To Campus Theater) Eastern Style Submarine Sandwiches Are Back In The Northgate Area! jtoiV Now Offering 10c BEER (with purchase of sandwich) EVERY MONDAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER! A 12 oz. Coors or Michelob beer with purchase of any sandwich! 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