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Pickard, Jerome – Appalachia, 1984
The dramatic slowdown in population growth in Appalachia since 1980 is the result of a sharp change in migration patterns. Both the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations increased much more slowly than in the United States as a whole, with metropolitan growth rates lagging farther behind the national rates. (BRR)
Descriptors: Migration Patterns, Population Growth, Population Trends, Rural Urban Differences
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Hart, John Fraser – Journal of Geography, 1986
Explores four selected facets of the geography of Midwest population related to movement of people: (1) spread of occupancy across the land; (2) growth of county populations once they had been occupied; (3) distribution of the foreign-born population; and (4) distribution of retirees who have migrated after retirement. Concludes movements are…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Geographic Distribution, Geography, Human Geography