Monday, October 14, 2019

Population loss in Alabama: Marengo County/Linden


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

Source:  Wikipedia (Marengo County, Linden)


Linden is the county seat of Marengo County.  

Population loss by degrees:  80-90%70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.



Percentage of population 25 and older with a bachelor's degree:
  • 15.4% - Marengo County
  • 24.5% - Alabama
  • 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
  • 19.6% - Marengo County
  • 16.9% - Alabama
  • 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  • 22.8% - Marengo County
  • 16.8% - Alabama
  • 11.8% - U.S.

The last time Marengo County voted for a Republican presidential candidate was in 2004.  Clinton received 51.1% of the vote in 2016.  George Wallace received 57% of the vote in 1968.
Related reading:
An Alabama Editor Urges the K.K.K. to ‘Ride Again,’ and His Small Town Winces.  (The New York Times, 2/19/2019) 

The editorial in The Democrat-Reporter, the newspaper that has served the small western Alabama town of Linden since 1879, appeared on Page 2 last Thursday, but it read as though it could have been written the year the paper was founded. 

Other Alabama population loss posts:
Sumter County/Livingston.  (10/13/2019)

Population loss series:

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