Even as the U.S. population grows, small towns and counties across the nation are losing people.
"[It is] a decline that the 2000 census found sweeping through the small towns of the Great Plains. While the nation's population grew 13 percent in the 1990's, the Census Bureau found that 676 of the nation's 3,141 counties lost people...Most of the decline was in wheat, ranching and oil country in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota and the Dakotas. In Kansas, for example, there are now more "frontier counties" ? defined by the census as having from two to six people per square mile ? than there were in 1890.
Thanks to Chris Serjak
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