Moving South

America is on the verge of a great migration that is affecting where people will live and how companies will profit. As futurist Dr. Jim Taylor points out in American Demographics, the U.S. has been the site of two previous major migrations.

The first migration, the relentless push from East to West, started in the 1690s and continued into the 1850s, when the entire nation was settled. The second migration, inspired by the Great Depression of 1929, lasted into the late 1970s; during that period, people from the Sou.....