Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.
Source: Wikipedia (Phillips County, Helena-West Helena)
Helena-West Helena is the county seat of Phillips County.
Population loss by degrees: 80-89%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.
Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
- 11.3% - Phillips County
- 22.0% - Arkansas
- 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
- 18.3% - Phillips County
- 16.6% - Arkansas
- 15.6% - U.S.
Phillips County has voted for a Republican candidate for president just once -- in 1972, Richard Nixon.
Related reading:
The Exodus to Liberia, Drive from Arkansas by White Persecution, One Hundred men, Women, and Children Who Would Rather Starve in Africa Than Live South -- The Story of Their Sufferings. (The New York Times, 8/27/1880)
Other Arkansas population loss posts:
Lee County/Marianna. (6/12/2019)
Other population loss series:
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