Internal Migration and Population Redistribution

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Report examines population redistribution in the 1970s pointing to several factors: 1970s energy crisis and labor force shift to mining, scattering of manufacturing into nonmetro areas, increased favorable views about rural life, increasing importance of recreation. Report also suggests a set of explanations for the reversal in demographic trends in lieu of economic slump in nonmetro areas.

Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group