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01/09/11 7:23 AM

#429 RE: wow_happens28 #428

Kansas county at U.S. geographical center is dying

By Kevin Murphy Kevin Murphy – Sat Jan 8, 1:15 pm ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110108/us_nm/us_midwest_population

Rural counties across the Midwest averaged a 5.1 percent population loss between 2000 and 2009, according to Liesl Eathington, an economist who studies Midwest population trends at Iowa State University. Kansas and Nebraska had the highest average losses at just over 11 percent.

The main reason is that family farms are being sold to bigger operations and people move away or get old and die. U.S. Census figures for 2010 are expected to show continued erosion of rural populations.