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- Title
A Qualitative Study of Depopulation in a Remote Rural District: 1900-1930.
- Authors
Reuss, Carl Frederick
- Abstract
The article presents a qualitative study of depopulation in the Stonewall Magisterial rural district in Richmond County, Virginia, from 1900 to 1930. The effect of cityward migration upon the quality of the residual rural population is a matter of vital social significance. Yet, just as all rural areas are not alike, so the effects of migration are not everywhere the same. Broadly speaking, three types of rural areas may be distinguished. They are those adjacent to a small city, those affected by industrial development, and those remote from both city and industry. One single method of determining the qualitative nature of rural depopulation has been applied to each of these three types of rural locality. A different picture was found in each area, lending credence to the view that environmental influences largely determine the qualitative character of migration and its effects upon the residual rural population. It was revealed that Stonewall district is losing much of its better population. A new population, recruited from the lower classes is emerging.
- Subjects
RICHMOND County (Va.); VIRGINIA; UNITED States; QUALITATIVE research; EMIGRATION &; immigration; RURAL population; DEMOGRAPHIC change
- Publication
Rural Sociology, 1937, Vol 2, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0036-0112
- Publication type
Article