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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/m...st-keep-dwindling-2019-05-07?siteid=rss&rss=1
Isn't it hilarious that rural areas are the most anti-immigrant? They are going to keep losing population until essential utilities like water treatment and businesses like hospitals become un-economical and then they are going to crash even harder.Metropolitan areas consist of those counties with central cities of at least 50,000, along with the surrounding counties that are economically dependent on them. They make up 36% of all counties. Between 2008, the cusp of the Great Recession, and 2017, they enjoyed nearly 99% of all job and population growth.
What remained of job and population growth was divided among the 21% of counties that are called micropolitan, which have midsize cities of between 10,000 and 50,000 residents, and the remaining 42% of counties that are rural.
Nationally, 71% of all metropolitan counties grew between 2008 and 2017, but more than half of the micropolitan and rural counties did not grow or shrank in population.
