| Sumario: | Data sets from the 1970/71 and 1990 National Jewish Population Surveys and the U.S. censuses of the same years were employed to explore changes in the internal migration of Jews and whites during the periods 1965-70 and 1985-90. Results reveal that interstate lifetime and five-year migration rates among Jews rose to levels significantly beyond those of whites. Although adjusting Jewish migration rates for the educational achievement of their white counterparts did not much influence lifetime migration or the recent migration of the 1970/71 Jewish population, it did account meaningfully for the migration propensities of Jews in the 1985-90 period. These results suggest that socioeconomic status has started to play a greater role in promoting different migration patterns than in promoting ethnic group variances. The direction of Jewish migrations have followed those of whites, and because of their higher migration rates, Jews have notably narrowed the regional distribution differences between themselves and whites.
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