The Dwindling Heartland: America's New Frontier. Laurent Belsie.
by Belsie, Laurent; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 25Environment. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Frontier thesis | Great Plains | Kansas | Poverty | Rural population | Rural-urban migrationDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Welcome to Smith County, home of the geographic center of the contiguous United States, the Kansas state song 'Home on the Range'--and the reemergence of America's frontier. As strange as it may sound, more than a century after Americans laid to rest the notion of a frontier, it's reappearing here on the Great Plains. Only this time, it doesn't involve people moving in, and it doesn't carry the sense of hope and progress of a nation expanding. Instead, it involves people moving out and represents a part of a nation contracting." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This author contends that rural communities are disappearing from the Great Plains region at an alarmingly high rate.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Dwindling Heartland: America's New Frontier, Feb. 11, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Welcome to Smith County, home of the geographic center of the contiguous United States, the Kansas state song 'Home on the Range'--and the reemergence of America's frontier. As strange as it may sound, more than a century after Americans laid to rest the notion of a frontier, it's reappearing here on the Great Plains. Only this time, it doesn't involve people moving in, and it doesn't carry the sense of hope and progress of a nation expanding. Instead, it involves people moving out and represents a part of a nation contracting." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This author contends that rural communities are disappearing from the Great Plains region at an alarmingly high rate.
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