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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
Appalachia, 1971
Descriptors: Business, Census Figures, Employment Patterns, Income
Appalachia, 1970
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Living Standards, Migration Patterns, Pilot Projects
Pickard, Jerome – Appalachia, 1975
Appalachia's accelerated growth in population is due primarily to the reversal from a net outmigration to net inmigration. (JC)
Descriptors: Demography, Migration Patterns, Population Growth, Rural Areas
Branscome, James – Appalachia, 1971
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Differences, Employment Opportunities, Government Role
Gilligan, John J. – Appalachia, 1974
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Conferences, Disadvantaged
Pickard, Jerome – Appalachia, 1981
Largely from immigration, Appalachian population grew by over 2,000,000 from 1970 to 1980, a rate of 11.1 percent. Statistical tables give state, local development district, regional and county-group population figures for 13 Appalachian states. A map and bar graphs show rate of population change by county, region and state. (NEC)
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Change, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
