All of the growth in the share of the population that lives in metropolitan areas in the past 50 years occurred because nonmetropolitan counties have been transformed into metropolitan counties. This calls into question the commonplace narrative of urban growth and rural decline occurring through an emptying out of rural America.
Research authors Ken Johnson, a Senior Demographer with the Carsey School, and Dan Lichter, a sociologist with the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, discuss their research, Is Rural America Failing or Succeeding? Maybe Both, and share some of their major findings.
Watch the webinar, then read the research at
https://bit.ly/3m3qZKh