Saturday, August 31, 2019

Population loss in Colorado: Baca County/Springfield


It all started here.

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

Source:  Wikipedia (Baca County, Springfield)

Springfield is the county seat of Baca County.

Population loss by degrees:  80-90%70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.
Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 21.4% - Baca County
  • 39.4% - Colorado
  • 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
  • 24.7% - Baca County
  • 14.2% - Colorado
  • 15.6% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  • 19.7% - Baca County
  • 10.3% - Colorado
  • 12.3% - U.S.

The last time a Democratic candidate for president won Baca County was in 1964.  Trump won 81.4% of the vote in 2016, best ever showing by a GOP presidential candidate.

Baca County Library, Springfield

Related reading:
BOOKS OF THE TIMES.  Laying Bare Dust Bowl's Scar Tissue.  (The New York Timee, 12/17/2005)
Egan makes this iconic material fresh by focusing on the plight of a handful of families from the hardest-hit bottom of the Dust Bowl, the western edge of the Oklahoma Panhandle known as No Man's Land; Dallam County due south in the Texas Panhandle; and Baca County in southeastern Colorado.

Other Colorado population loss posts:
Sedgwick County/Julesburg.  (8/28/2019)
Washington County/Akron.  (8/29/2019)
Cheyenne County/Cheyenne Wells.  (8/30/2019)
Kiowa County/Eads.  (8/31/2019)

Other population loss series:

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