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Peer reviewedAlonso, William – Public Interest, 1978
This article suggests that there are three principal sources of metropolitan population decline: the declining birth rate, the reversal of rural-to-urban migration, and inter-metropolitan migration. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Decentralization, Metropolitan Areas, Migration Patterns
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
Gober, Patricia – 1979
The role of migration and of federal policy in population redistribution should be a central focus in population geography education. Although migration to the Sunbelt and the West has been a pattern since the 1950s, a significant trend has been noted only since the 1970s, when the birth rate dropped so much that natural increase could not…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Economic Factors, Federal Aid
