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Rural Growth (re-submission) Chapter (The Rural Landscape)of our textbook(Rural Communities and Legacy) and the handout “Wisconsin Land & Life prompted me to learn more about the exodus of those living in metropolitan areas and the influx of them to this and other areas of the United States. A great source of information is a web site called Americandemograghics(no space); I have used this site to gather statistical information for work related projects and for class work in the past. Rural areas are enjoying widespread population gains in the 1990s. This surprising reversal is based on several new trends. Lower fertility combined with heavy migration from cities is creating thriving rural counties with few children. Farm jobs remain scarce; today, rural growth depends on commuters, retirees, vacationers, and manufacturers. The result could be a long-term return to the country. The revival of growth in rural America is one of the biggest demographic stories of the 1990s. Three in four non-metropolitan counties gained population between 1990 and 1994, a stunning reversal following a decade of rural decline. Now the pace of rural growth seems to be accelerating, and the implications for busine