Poll: Study suggests continued population drop in Kansas

[RKP5637]

Not surprised, never thought of Kansas as a destination where people long to work and live. Some areas are very nice and the people are nice, but IMO the RW rhetoric, the theocratic governor and an insane legislature are driving some people out of Kansas. And then one has the Phelps family and all of the abortion crap that spews from Kansas. Kansas does not do much to promote itself as a primary destination to live and work.

See >>> http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1561294638/Study-suggests-continued-population-drop-in-Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. — A decades-long decline in population is likely to continue in Kansas, particularly in the west of the state, and four counties could have fewer than 1,000 residents by 2040, according to a study by Wichita State University’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research.

Census figures have detailed the decline for years, most recently showing that 77 of Kansas’ 105 counties lost population in the last decade. The population of 41 Kansas counties peaked in 1910 or earlier and 28 counties haven’t recorded a population increase from one census to the next since 1940, not even during the post-World War II baby boom, The Hutchinson News reported (http://bit.ly/KLlI3k ).

“In some of these communities, we’re getting down to a very small population,” Hill said. “People who want to move probably already have left. People who are there are there for one reason or another. They’re attached to the land or they’re there for work and they’ve probably already gone through the agricultural productivity (gains that reduced farm employment). They’re not likely to decline any further.”

Without migration, Wichita State projected that 37 counties — 22 in the western Kansas — would lose population. The main reason for the decline is a relatively low concentration of women of child-bearing age, Hill said.

See >>> http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1561294638/Study-suggests-continued-population-drop-in-Kansas

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[Shrek]

1. I was born and raised here

I've travelled to 45 states and several foreign countries.

I've yet to find another place I'd rather live.

[RKP5637]

2. There are parts of Kansas that are absolutely wonderful! n/t

[KansDem]

3. I left San Diego in 1979 to attended graduate school at KU

Now, I'm ready to move back. Not necessarily because of Kansas politics--although it has gotten worse in recent years--but simply because it's time to move on.

[RKP5637]

4. We're moving on too, but in our case it's the Kansas politics driving us

out of Kansas. Particularly in recent years Kansas politics just seems to keep getting nuttier and nuttier to us. There are a bit more moderate areas to live and work. Looking down the road if republicans win and fully gain control and DC becomes more RW it seems RW states are going to have a field day. The present governor in KS will probably go down in history as one of the worst.

[Dawson Leery]

5. I would never live in Kansas.

Reactionary theocrats.

[RKP5637]

6. It's a little weird to say the least. Each day often brings another WTF. If I were

Kansas, I would try to make the state as open and diverse as possible. Instead, they seem to often try to appeal to just RW throwback ideologies with an authoritarian theocratic imposed control.

[Arugula Latte]

7. I need to live on a coast. Psychologically I can't deal with being landlocked.

I lived in Colorado for a little while and would occasionally hallucinate, sans drugs, that the bluish Great Plains seen from the Rockies looking east were actually the ocean.

[RKP5637]

8. I know exactly what you mean!!! I'm very saddened I ever left the coasts. n/t