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Migration Patterns Of Young Adults Reared In Jackson County, Tennessee, Charles Martin Farmer
Migration Patterns Of Young Adults Reared In Jackson County, Tennessee, Charles Martin Farmer
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Most Tennessee counties have experienced a net outmigration of persons in recent decades. For example, net outmigration for Tennessee was over one-fourth of a million persons from 1950 to 1960 or half of the level of natural population increase during this period. During the 1950-60 decade, 86 of the 95 counties had a net outmigration of persons. In 59 counties outmigration was sufficient to result in an aggregate population decline. Counties experiencing greatest population declines are largely rural containing few urban centers.
The questions of who leaves and who stays in low income rural areas and the effects of leaving …