Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Population loss in North Dakota: Divide County, Trump's America


It all started here.

Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.  

Source:  Wikipedia (Divide County, Crosby)


Crosby is the county seat of Divide County.

Population loss by degrees:  80-89%70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.

Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 19.4% - Divide County
  • 28.9% - North Dakota
  • 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
  • 25.2% - Divide County
  • 15.3% - North Dakota
  • 15.6% - U.S.

Trump's America. 

Source:  Wikipedia
Votes for 3rd-party candidates:  29.1% in 1992, 16.1% in 1996, 8.8% in 2016\

Divide County Public Library

Related reading:
Not Far From Forsaken.  (The New York Times, 4/9/2006)
But not here, in North Dakota. North Dakota has continued to lose people. And it didn't have that many to begin with. In 1930, its population peaked at 680,845. In 2000, it was down to 642,200, and by 2004, the last year for which statistics are available, it had dropped to 634,366. (By comparison, the national population more than doubled, to 294 million from 123 million, during the same period.) Of the 25 counties nationwide that lost the largest portions of their populations in the 1990's, 12 were in North Dakota.

Other population loss series:

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