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Beale, Calvin L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Examines and explains unexpected population trends since 1970: substantial rural and small-town growth, regional shifts to the South and West, lower birth rates, increased life expectancy, smaller household size, and population growth from immigration. Illustrates how demographic events offer classic examples of the difficulty of predicting human…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Family Size, Immigrants, Long Range Planning
Download full textFuguitt, Glenn V.; Fulton, John A.; Beale, Calvin L. – 2001
This report measures the amount of black migration from and to the nonmetropolitan parts of the United States south from 1965-70 and 1990-95. It considers trends both within the south and with the rest of the nation. For perspective, comparisons are made with the movement of the non-black population, more than 90 percent of which is white. In the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Attainment, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
