You ever think about how two of the best songs ever are about the mid-century Great Migration from the South to California, Otis Redding's Sitting by the Dock of the Bay and Gladys Knight & the Pips' Midnight Train to Georgia?

Specifically they're about the pain of being uprooted because social and economic conditions back home were too hostile to bear. You listen to Sitting on the Dock of the Bay now and you realize how many of that generation's grandkids have to leave the Bay and it gets heavy

Capitalism periodically flushes the working class out, forcing people to en masse to leave everything behind. Anecdotally I've talked to a bunch of black working-class people in the Bay who say they're moving to Phoenix or Houston, following family who have already left