Population Change and Rural Society

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction and Demographic Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Rural America through a Demographic Lens

      • David L. Brown, William A. Kandel

      Pages 3-23

   3. The Rural Rebound and its Aftermath

      • Kenneth M. Johnson, John B. Cromartie

      Pages 25-49

3. Four Critical Socio-Demographic Themes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. The Changing Faces of Rural America

      • Annabel Kirschner, E. Helen Berry, Nina Glasgow

      Pages 53-74

   3. Changing Livelihoods in Rural America

      • Alexander C. Vias, Peter B. Nelson

      Pages 75-102

   4. Fifty Years of Farmland Change

      • Max J. Pfeffer, Joe D. Francis, Zev Ross

      Pages 103-129

   5. Changing Fortunes

      • Leif Jensen, Stephan J. Goetz, Hema Swaminathan

      Pages 131-152

4. Case Studies of Population and Society in Different Rural Regions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Rural Hispanic Population Growth

      • William A. Kandel, Emilio A. Parrado

      Pages 155-175

   3. Social Integration Among Older in-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties

      • Nina Glasgow, David L. Brown

      Pages 177-196

   4. Agricultural Dependence and Changing Population in the Great Plains

      • Kenneth M. Johnson, Richard W. Rathge

      Pages 197-217

   5. Gaming, Population Change, and Rural Development on Indian Reservations

      • Gundars Rudzitis

      Pages 219-232

   6. Metro Expansion and Nonmetro Change in the South

      • John B. Cromartie

      Pages 233-252

   7. Changing Land Use in the Rural Intermountain West

      • Douglas Jackson-Smith, Eric Jensen, Brian Jennings

      Pages 253-276

   8. Does Second Home Development Adversely Affect Rural Life?

      • Richard C. Stedman, Stephan J. Goetz, Benjamin Weagraff

      Pages 277-292

   9. Housing Affordability and Population Chang in the Upper Midwestern North Woods

      • Roger B. Hammer, Richelle L. Winkler

      Pages 293-309

   10. Social Change and Well-Being in Western Amenity-Growth Communities

       • Richard S. Krannich, Peggy Petrzelka, Joan M. Brehm

       Pages 311-331

   11. Community Evaluation and Migration Intentions

       • Christiane Von Reichert

       Pages 333-356

CALVIN L. BEALE In considering how to introduce the subject of rural population change in st the 21 Century, I ?nd myself re?ecting on my own experience as a demographer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. When I arrived at the Department, the post-World War II modernization of farming was well under way. Each year, my colleague Gladys Bowles and I had the unpopular task of announcing how much the farm population had decreased in the prior year. It was hard to say that the phenomenon was someone’s fault. Dramatic reductions in labor requirements per unit of agricultural output were occurring everywhere and not just in the United States. But politically, blame had to be assigned, and whichever political party was not in the White House was certain to place the blame squarely on the current administration. The demographic consequences of this trend were major. In a 22-year period from 1941 to 1962, the net loss of farm population from migration and cessation of farming averaged over a million people per year. It took eight years after the war before an administration was willing to begin to talk about the need to diversify rural employment. By that time, farm residents had already become a minority of rural people. However, well into the 1970s, I continued to receive inquiries from people who still equated rural with farm or who could not envision what rural-nonfarm people did for a living.

• Census
• Demographic change
• Demography
• Nation
• Rural Development
• development
• environment
• integration
• migration
• population

• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, USA

  William A. Kandel

• Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  David L. Brown

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