rural idiocy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Michael Hoover wrote:
>Areas of Residence 1950-1990
>Source: U.S. Dept of Commerce, Bureau of the Census,  _Statistical
>Abstracts of the United States_
>
>1950:
>Central Cities (City): 33%
>Suburbs: 23%
>Outside Metropolitan Statistical Area (Rural): 44%
>
>1970:
>City: 31%
>Suburbs: 37%
>Rural: 31%
>
>1990:
>City: 31%
>Suburbs: 46%
>Rural: 23%

Stats provided by Michael says that the most significant change is not
out-migration from cities to suburbs but depopulation of rural areas and/or
what used to be rural areas developping into suburbs.

Yoshie