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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 ...
Ethnic groups in the South were the most diverse among American regions, and include strong European (especially English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Irish, French, and Spanish), African, and Native American ancestries. [11] The politics and economy of the region were historically dominated by a small rural elite. [12]
The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States in 1850.
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.
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 ...
The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States.The term was first used to describe the states which were most economically dependent on plantations and slavery, specifically Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
It had the result of closing down most of the of small proprietary local schools that produced doctors for rural America. In 1938, rural counties with without a city of 2500 people had 69 doctors per 100,000 population, while urban counties with cities of 50,000 or more population had 174. [120]
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]