It all started here.
Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.
Source: Wikipedia (Harlan County, Harlan)
Harlan is the county seat of Harlan County.
Population loss by degrees: 80-90%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
- 11.4% - Harlan County
- 23.2% - Kentucky
- 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
- 18.7% - Harlan County
- 16.4% - Kentucky
- 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
- 41.5% - Harlan County
- 16.9% - Kentucky
- 11.8% - U.S.
Greetings from Trump's America.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 11.8% of vote in 1992, 9.1% of vote in 1996, 2.4% in 2016
(George Wallace received 16.2% of the vote in 1968)
Related reading:
Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills. (The New York Times, 12/21/2018)
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Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills. (The New York Times, 12/21/2018)
Harlan County is the nation’s fifth most dependent on federal programs, according to the government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. In 2016 some 54 percent of the income of the county’s roughly 26,000 residents came from programs like Social Security and Medicaid, food stamps — formally known as SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — and the earned-income tax credit. That is up from 28 percent in 1990.In Militant Harlan County, Ky., Miners Vow to Reject New Settlement. (The New York Times, 3/21/1978)
Nobody here pretends that Local 1974, which has a short but fierce history, is representative of the nation's miners. It wrote the latest chapter in the long-running story of a county known, for good reason, as Bloody Harlan. Part of the county's history of strife was written in mine wars.
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