Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... urban - rural differences within the nonmetropolitan classification , keeping the traditional 2,500 population as the dividing line between rural and urban places . Although it makes some difference in comparing population ...
... urban - rural differences within the nonmetropolitan classification , keeping the traditional 2,500 population as the dividing line between rural and urban places . Although it makes some difference in comparing population ...
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... rural and urban fertility declined rather steadily from the time of the first censuses until 1940 . By 1940 , at the end of the Depression , urban childbearing was below the level necessary for long - term population replacement , but rural ...
... rural and urban fertility declined rather steadily from the time of the first censuses until 1940 . By 1940 , at the end of the Depression , urban childbearing was below the level necessary for long - term population replacement , but rural ...
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... rural families away from farming created a downward pressure on births , for no other occupation group has as ... rural and urban women that are lower than those found for women of similar age ten years earlier . That is , women ...
... rural families away from farming created a downward pressure on births , for no other occupation group has as ... rural and urban women that are lower than those found for women of similar age ten years earlier . That is , women ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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