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Study tracks gender shift in rural Great Plains

May 28th, 2014 | By | Category: 2014, Issue, May 22, Research

In many rural communities hard hit by decades of population declines, young men increasingly outnumber young women, a new study of Kansas and Nebraska census data shows. In places with 800 or fewer residents, the proportion of young men increased by an average of nearly 40 percent as people went from their teens to their […]