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4. Northern Michigan has been losing population for a hundred years

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Mar 28, 2016, 05:28 AM

Mar 2016

With the decline in extraction industries (iron ore, copper, and timber) there is little to keep the population there. The land is very poor for farming.

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Here's where more people are dying than being born in America [View all] applegrove Mar 2016 OP

Democrats in those counties where more people are dying than being born should school applegrove Mar 2016 #1

Unfortunately they look at it quite differently 2naSalit Mar 2016 #2

All it means is that some counties have a more elderly population and some counties attract families Quantess Mar 2016 #3

Northern Michigan has been losing population for a hundred years 1939 Mar 2016 #4