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The purple areas on the map indicate counties losing population between 2000 and 2010. Most are on the Great Plains. The initial rush to settle the Great Plains by hundreds of thousands of farmers and ranchers has been reversed because of several factors. Perhaps the most significant reasons have been economic.
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes ...
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Image:Canada_blank_map.svg — Canada. File:Blank US Map (states only).svg — United States (including Alaska and Hawaii). Each state is its own vector image, meaning coloring states individually is very easy. File:Blank USA, w territories.svg – United States, including all major territories.
The mixed reception of popular culture and consumerism in rural America further illustrates this tension between rural traditions and modernizing forces. Ever since the battles between Jeffersonian Republicans against Hamiltonian Federalists, the conflict between localism and cosmopolitanism has provided clues to understand the defensiveness of ...
Despite the decline in commercial areas, he noted that residents have reportedly been pushing their local government to create more parks among other government-created community spaces with the ...
Rural women are particularly disadvantaged, both as poor and as women. [28] Women in both rural and urban areas face a higher risk of poverty and more limited economic opportunities than their male counterparts. [29] The number of rural women living in extreme poverty rose by about 50 percent over the past twenty years. [28]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 15:45, 27 April 2018: 600 × 400 (79 KB): Colin Fredericks: Should be visually identical to the original. In the source code, the states have been alphabetized, and css classes have been added so that it's easier to color specific regions (as per US census regions and some others).