Show South i Grows rows One of oC the significant findings findings findings find find- ings of oC the 1970 census is that thata a turning-point turning has occurred in the population growth in inthe inthe inthe the South For I the he first time in many decades more people moved into the south t than h a n moved put cut Ut of oC it it in the sixties THE CENSUS Bureau di divides divides divides di- di vides the country into four Cour major regions the South being the most populous since it includes Maryland Delaware West Virginia Kentucky Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa and the District of Columbia with the eleven former Confederate states Virginia North and South Carolina Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- lina Georgia Florida Alabama Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas and Texas The population of oC the region is now million THE SOUTH is now very close to the national average in educational attainment and by 1973 will have pulled even with the national average Already adults from Crom the South are as likely as those from Crom other regions region to have had some college education ion BUT THE TIlE region still lags in per r capita income though its ils average is increasing faster faster fast Cast er than the national average and family income |