The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Americans moved far more often (…) . “We are a migratory people and we flourish best when we make an occasional change of base,” one 19th-century newspaper explained. “We have cut loose from the old styles of human vegetation, the former method, of sticking like an oyster to one spot through numberless succeeding generations,” wrote another.

    The word you were looking for is “nomads”.