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Since approximately 1970, trends in the spatial distribution of population in the United States have undergone dramatic changes. After many decades during which the West experienced the greatest volume of net in-migration, the South has, since about 1970, had a volume of net in-migration about twice that of the West. Moreover, during the 1970s the rate of population growth in metropolitan areas slowed considerably, in part because the central-city population of many metropolitan areas declined and the suburban growth boom of prior years moderated appreciably. Partially as a cause and partially as a consequence of these changed circumstances, the historical trend of migration out of nonmetro-politan areas and into metropolitan areas reversed during the 1970s such that population in nonmetropolitan America grew more rapidly than that in metropolitan America.
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Greenwood, M.J., Chalmers, J.A., Graves, P.E. (1989). Regional Location Patterns in the United States: Recent Changes and Future Prospects. In: Van Dijk, J., Folmer, H., Herzog, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (eds) Migration and Labor Market Adjustment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7846-2_2
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