Flying from Raleigh Durham Intl. Raleigh-Durham International Airport serves a number of areas near the stateâs capital, including Raleigh itself, Durham, Cary, and Chapel Hill. Whether youâre planning to travel to North Carolina or youâre looking to temporarily escape from the east coast state on vacation, travel through the RDU airport.
Moving from rural to urban areas was the predominant type of intra-regional migration in the 19th & 20th centuries.
The Great Migration (1915-1960) The Great Migration was the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960. During the initial wave the majority of migrants moved to major northern cities such as Chicago, Illiniois, Detroit, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York, New York.