The families in the Call to Home by Carol Stack do not fit with the normal American household described by Haviland. A normal American household includes the parents and the children only. An aunt raising her nieces and nephews with her own children while their parents are living up North is not considered a normal household. Parents and children are separated with part of the children living with one parent and the others are living with grandparents. Such separation occurs because it is harder and harder to find jobs in the South and many kids have no other choice but to go up North for education and money. As North became more industrialized, people like Eula Grant, Shantee Owens, Donald Hardy and many others packed their bags and went looking for better lives.The industrialization and the shift to urbanism did not really affect the kinship system of southern rural families. It has become harder to keep and follow the system because of people moving North but there are still extended families just like before. The children are still sending their kids back home to the grandparents, there are still aunts and uncles living together with their families. If children move up North, they sometimes live with the relatives that have already established themselves, so they still stay in the homelike environment. Of course, there are people like Billie and Hank who try to survive on their own, but they still send their girls home, which is a continuation of the kinship system.The series of migration along with its consequences could not have occurred anywhere else but in the rural South. It was the place with a totally different economic system then the rest of the United Stated. When East Coast and West Coast started industrializing, the South did not but kept on relying on cotton and slaves to produce it. However, when slavery was abolished, Southern economy, which relied on the slaves, fell, causing major poverty. Ex-slaves started share...
