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- Americans are moving within the country far less often than they once did.
- The peak of US migration followed the end of World War II and lasted through the mid-1970s.
- But while overall migration is down, state-to-state moves are slowly on the rise again.
Recent headlines are abuzz with Californians moving to Texas and big city dwellers ditching urban life for solitude in the suburbs as a seemingly new wave of modern migration is born.