I have not seen the following reason mentioned as a cause of migration from former Confederate states. The Congress of the U. S. wanting to punish the South imposed heavy taxes on land owners in the South as well as more taxes on cotton grown by Southerners. As a result most land owners were unable to pay the taxes on their land and lost it. This happened to many land owners as they had lost most of their money during the war, and now they lost their land. Many left for TX, AR, and other territories in the West. The families that stayed became extremely poor and spent many years trying to provide for themselves by farming small plots of land and becoming renters on their former land. This lasted well into the 20th Century for many families--actually until WWII. The Depression had caused more hardships for these people. The children were mostly uneducated as their parents could not spare them from the work on the farm to go to school. Joyce