Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and ChangeThomas R. Ford |
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... rural population as a percentage of the total population - from 95 percent at the first census in 1790 to 26.5 percent in the 1970 census - has helped create the illusion that the rural population was also declining in absolute numbers ...
... rural population as a percentage of the total population - from 95 percent at the first census in 1790 to 26.5 percent in the 1970 census - has helped create the illusion that the rural population was also declining in absolute numbers ...
Page 41
... population ( 4.4 million ) was black , and the blacks were almost entirely tenants on cotton and tobacco farms , or , if owners , had places too small to support a family ... rural population , and the number of rural People on the Land 41.
... population ( 4.4 million ) was black , and the blacks were almost entirely tenants on cotton and tobacco farms , or , if owners , had places too small to support a family ... rural population , and the number of rural People on the Land 41.
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... rural population grew by about a fifth here from 1940 to 1970 , despite the reclassification of much population as urban and a drastic cutback in farming . The fastest growth of rural population has come in the Florida Peninsula . The ...
... rural population grew by about a fifth here from 1940 to 1970 , despite the reclassification of much population as urban and a drastic cutback in farming . The fastest growth of rural population has come in the Florida Peninsula . The ...
Contents
Quality and Conflicts in Land | 19 |
People on the Land | 37 |
The Changing Character of the Nonmetropolitan | 55 |
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