Left behind: Most Midwest small towns and counties have been bleeding population for decades

Boothe: Identity Politics & Trump Resistance Won't Help Dems in the Heartland.  (Fox News Insider, 1/11/2018)

Take Iowa, for example,

Original 2/1/2015 post, "Road Trip to Iowa's 99 Counties", starts here.

Iowa governor says candidates should visit 99 counties.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/24/2015)

GOP presidential candidates should visit all 99 Iowa counties over the next year if they want to clinch their party’s nomination, Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad said Saturday.

And of those 99 counties, 84 of them are losing population.

• 13 of them more than 50% (purple)
• 11 of them 40-49% (orange)
• 15 of them 30-39% (yellow)

ISU analysis of census data shows that majority of Iowa communities are shrinking.  (Iowa State University, 5/27/2014)

And have been shrinking for quite some time.

Related reading (added to this updated post):
Kansas population continues shift to urban centers, latest census estimates show.  (Lawrence Journal-World, 4/16/2016)

But nearly all of that growth in Kansas can be attributed to just three counties — Johnson, Wyandotte and Douglas — which grew by a combined 4.9 percent. That accounted for 84 percent of all the net growth in the state over the five-year period.

60 Nebraska counties lose population.  (Panhandle Post, 3/14/2013)

The 2012 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show population declines in 60 of Nebraska’s 93 counties. And 42 counties recorded more deaths that births.

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UPDATE. The myopic, fascistic Lisa Boothe is extremely uncomfortable with the thought of a successful black man.  (9/6/2017)