Economic implications of the recent population shift toward rural areas
1976
Clawson, M.
Extract: A significant immigration to a nonmetropolitan community, or a significantly larger retention of the community's natural increase in population, will change to some degree the social structure of the area. outmigration in the past has left many nonmetropolitan areas with fewer young people. it has also probably left the community with a socially more conservative population, one more content with things as they are and less inclined to seek adventure and change. it is conceivable that newcomers (or retained young people) will fit into such a community (in the sociological sense of the term); indeed, it seems likely that many immigrants hope to do just that. but it is also conceivable that social tensions may arise between newcomers and old residents and between older and younger residents. to the extent that many of the immigrants are older and/or that a large proportion of the resident population is relatively older, there may arise sharp differences within the community, on age lines, on such matters as public expenditures for schools versus public expenditures for health services.
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