Editing Oaxaca (section)

===Migration===
In 45.5% of Oaxaca's municipalities, the population has declined due to migration. Poverty and migration are caused mostly by the lack of economic development in the state, which leaves most of the population working in the least productive sector. This has led to wide scale migration, mostly from the rural areas, to find employment. Within Oaxaca, many people leave rural villages to work in the city of Oaxaca, the Papaloapan area and the coast. Within Mexico, many leave for Mexico City, [[Mexico State]], [[Sinaloa]], [[Baja California]] and [[Baja California Sur]]. Most of those leaving the state are agricultural workers. As of 2005, over 80,000 people from Oaxaca state live in some other part of Mexico.<ref name="pobreza "/><ref name="movimientos">{{cite web |url=http://cuentame.inegi.org.mx/monografias/informacion/oax/poblacion/m_migratorios.aspx?tema=me&e=20 |title=Movimientos migratorios |publisher=[[INEGI]] |location=Mexico |language=es |trans-title=Migratory movements |access-date=August 15, 2010}}</ref> Most of those leaving Oaxaca and Mexico go to the United States. Much of the current wave of emigration began in the late 1970s, and by the 1980s Oaxaca ranked 8th in the number of people leaving for the US from Mexico. Today, that percentage has fallen to 20th. Most of those migrate to the United States, concentrated in California and Illinois.<ref name="pobreza "/> In 2007, estimates of the number of Oaxacans residing in [[Los Angeles]], California ranged from 50,000 to 250,000.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sounds in Oaxacalifornia: Gala Porras-Kim Investigates Indigenous Tones, 18th Street Arts Center |work=Artbound – KCET – Los Angeles |access-date=2012-08-07 |date=2012-07-31 |url=http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/sounds-in-oaxacalifornia-gala-porras-kim-investigates-indigenous-tones.html}}</ref>