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Population Change and Rural Society THE SPRINGER SERIES ON DEMOGRAPHIC METHODS AND POPULATION ANALYSIS Series Editor KENNETH C. LAND Duke University In recent decades, there has been a rapid development of demographic models and methods and an explosive growth in the range of applications of population analysis. This series seeks to provide a publication outlet both for high-quality textual and expository books on modern techniques of demographic analysis and for works that present exemplary applications of such techniques to various aspects of population analysis. Topics appropriate for the series include: r General demographic methods r Techniques of standardization r Life table models and methods r Multistate and multiregional life tables, analyses, and projections r Demographic aspects of biostatistics and epidemiology r Stable population theory and its extensions r Methods of indirect estimation r Stochastic population models r Event history analysis, duration analysis, and hazard regression models r Demographic projection methods and population forecasts r Techniques of applied demographic analysis, regional and local population estimates and projections r Methods of estimaion and projection for business and health care applications r Methods and estimates for unique populations such as schools and students Volumes in the series are of interest to researchers, professionals, and students in demography, sociology, economics, statistics, geography and regional science, public health and health care management, epidemiology, biostatistics, actuarial science, business, and related fields. The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume. Population Change and Rural Society Edited by William A. Kandel Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Washington, DC, USA and David L. Brown Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN-10 1-4020-3901-8 (PB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3901-0 (PB) ISBN-10 1-4020-3911-5 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3911-9 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-3902-6 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3902-7 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com Printed on acid-free paper All rights reserved. ⃝C 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands. Dedication For James Copp An intellectual leader in the discipline of Rural Sociology, and our friend and longtime colleague CONTENTS Contributors ................................................................................ xi Acknowledgements ....................................................................... xv Foreword .................................................................................... xvii Calvin Beale Part I Introduction and Demographic Context ................................ 1 1 Rural America Through A Demographic Lens.................................. 3 David L. Brown and William A. Kandel 2 The Rural Rebound and its Aftermath: Changing Demographic Dynamics and Regional Contrasts ................................................. 25 Kenneth M. Johnson and John B. Cromartie Part II Four Critical Socio-demographic Themes ............................. 51 3 The Changing Faces of Rural America ........................................... 53 Annabel Kirschner, E. Helen Berry, and Nina Glasgow 4 Changing Livelihoods in Rural America ......................................... 75 Alexander C. Vias and Peter B. Nelson 5 Fifty Years of Farmland Change: Urbanization, Population Growth, and the Changing Farm Economy.......................................103 Max J. Pfeffer, Joe D. Francis, and Zev Ross 6 Changing Fortunes: Poverty in Rural America..................................131 Leif Jensen, Stephan J. Goetz, and Hema Swaminathan Part III Case Studies of Population and Society in Different Rural Regions................................................................153 7 Rural Hispanic Population Growth: Public Policy Impacts in Nonmetro Counties................................................................155 William A. Kandel and Emilio A. Parrado vii viii CONTENTS 8 Social Integration Among Older In-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties: Establishing New Ties ................... 177 Nina Glasgow and David L. Brown 9 Agricultural Dependence and Changing Population in The Great Plains..................................................................197 Kenneth M. Johnson and Richard W. Rathge 10 Gaming, Population Change, and Rural Development on Indian Reservations: An Idaho Case Study.....................................219 Gundars Rudzitis 11 Metro Expansion and Nonmetro Change in the South ....................... 233 John B. Cromartie 12 Changing Land Use in the Rural Intermountain West........................253 Douglas Jackson-Smith, Eric Jensen, and Brian Jennings 13 Does Second Home Development Adversely Affect Rural Life? .......... 277 Richard C. Stedman, Stephan J. Goetz, and Benjamin Weagraff 14 Housing Affordability and Population Change in the Upper Midwestern North Woods ......................................................... 293 Roger B. Hammer and Richelle L. Winkler 15 Social Change and Well-Being in Western Amenity-Growth Communities ......................................................................... 311 Richard S. Krannich, Peggy Petrzelka, and Joan M. Brehm 16 Community Evaluation and Migration Intentions: The Role of Attraction and Aversion to Place on the Northern Great Plains...........................................................................333 Christiane Von Reichert 17 Poverty and Income Inequality in Appalachia ................................. 357 Elgin Mannion and Dwight B. Billings 18 Welfare Reform Amidst Chronic Poverty in the Mississippi Delta .................................................................... 381 M. A. Lee and Joachim Singelmann CONTENTS ix Part IV New Analytic Directions and Policy Implications...................405 19 Explorations in Spatial Demography ............................................ 407 Paul R. Voss, Katherine J. Curtis White, and Roger B. Hammer 20 Policy Implications of Rural Demographic Change .......................... 431 Leslie A. Whitener Index ......................................................................................... 449 CONTRIBUTORS Calvin Beale is senior demographer with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. E. Helen Berry is professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, and affiliate with the Population Research Laboratory, at Utah State University. Dwight B. Billings is professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. Joan Brehm is assistant professor of sociology at Illinois State University. David Brown is professor of development sociology at Cornell University and director of the Polson Institute for Global Development. John Cromartie is geographer with the Economic Research Service, U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture. Katherine J. Curtis White is NICHD postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Joe D. Francis is associate professor of development sociology at Cornell University. Nina Glasgow is senior research associate in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Stephan J. Goetz is professor of agricultural and regional economics and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development at Pennsylvania State University. Roger B. Hammer is assistant professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and land-use specialist with University of Wisconsin- Extension. Douglas Jackson-Smith is associate professor of sociology at Utah State University. Brian Jennings is graduate student in sociology at Utah State University. Eric Jensen is graduate student in sociology at Utah State University. Leif Jensen is professor of rural sociology and demography and director of the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. Kenneth M. Johnson is professor of sociology at Loyola University-Chicago. xi

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