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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%.
- 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.
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)
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