The Migration to Towns and Cities. III

Migrants from cities to farms come primarily from the artisan class. Their economic ability, as shown by incomes and living expenditures, is about equivalent to that of native farmers. They are better educated than native farmers. Two thirds of them take up farming because they intermarry with farm children. A comparison of the net migration between cities and farms by economic and social groups gives the net law of rural-urban social selection: the cities attract the extremes while farms attract the mean strata in society. This is a mere hypothesis.