It all started here.
Population loss as in major -- 50% or more.
Source: Wikipedia (Breathitt County, Jackson)
Jackson is the county seat of Breathitt County.
Population loss by degrees: 80-90%, 70-79%, 60-69%, 50-59%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
- 12.6% - Breathitt County
- 23.2% - Kentucky
- 30.9% - U.S.
Percentage of population 65 and older:
- 17.2% - Breathitt County
- 16.4% - Kentucky
- 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
- 36.2% - Breathitt County
- 16.9% - Kentucky
- 11.8% - U.S.
Greetings from Trump's America.
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 10.1% of vote in 1992, 9% of vote in 1996, 3.7% in 2016
(George Wallace received 7.8% of the vote in 1968)
Related reading:
What’s the Matter With Eastern Kentucky? (The New York Times, 6/29/2014)
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What’s the Matter With Eastern Kentucky? (The New York Times, 6/29/2014)
There are many tough places in this country: the ghost cities of Detroit, Camden and Gary, the sunbaked misery of inland California and the isolated reservations where Native American communities were left to struggle. But in its persistent poverty, Eastern Kentucky — land of storybook hills and drawls — just might be the hardest place to live in the United States. Statistically speaking.
The team at The Upshot, a Times news and data-analysis venture, compiled six basic metrics to give a picture of the quality and longevity of life in each county of the nation: educational attainment, household income, jobless rate, disability rate, life expectancy and obesity rate. Weighting each equally, six counties in eastern Kentucky’s coal country (Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Leslie and Magoffin) rank among the bottom 10.
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