Category: Geography

population,”The majority of Canadianslive in southeastern Canada.Canada’s total population is34.5 million. The United States has 311.7million people within itsborders, shifting away fromthe Old Economic Core tofaster-growing regions in thecountry. The Middle West, a centralfarming region in NorthAmerica, has shrinkingpopulations

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return migration,”• It is true that significant racial segregation still persists in that black peopleand white people tend to live and worship separately, but in fact, manymore whites and blacks share neighborhoods in the South than in the OldEconomic Core.• The South has the nation’s highest concentration of families living below thepoverty line, and most of them are white. On the other hand, mostSoutherners—black, white, or Hispanic—are able to maintain a substantiallybetter standard of living than their parents did.• Many who left the South in the 1950s and 1960s for factory jobs in the OldEconomic Core in the Great Migration have come back to the region becauseof jobs, business opportunities, the lower cost of living, and a milder climate,as well as safer, more spacious, and friendlier neighborhoods than the onesthey left in places such as New York, Illinois, or California.• In the 1990s, 3.5 million people who self-identified as black moved to theSouth from other parts of the United States. Seven of the ten metropolitanareas that gained the most black migrants during the 1990s were in theSouth, principally in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee

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Things to Remember,”The regional boundaries of the American South are perhaps less distinct andbased more on a perceived state of mind and a way of life than most other U.S.regions.• While the South still remains the subregion with the nation’s highest povertyrate and lowest educational attainment, the region is growing in population,number of businesses, and high-tech industry; it is improving with regard to itsoverall human well-being; and it is increasingly becoming the choice ofresidence for immigrants from all over the world.• Contrary to popular belief

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Some challenges of the Great Plains,”As people do in even drier regions in the Continental Interior, Great Plainsfarmers often irrigate their crops with water pumped from deep aquifers anddelivered with central-pivot sprinklers that irrigate circular-shaped areas.• However, to produce enough grain for one slice of bread in irrigated fields takes10.4 gallons of water

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globalization and the great plains,”• Cattle and other livestock, such as hogsand turkeys, are slaughtered andprocessed for market in small plantsacross the plains by low-wage, oftenimmigrant, labor.• In the 1970s, a meatpacking job in theGreat Plains provided a stable annualincome of $30,000 or more, relativelyhigh for the time.• in the 1980s, a number of unionizedmeatpacking companies closed theirdoors. Other nonunion plants opened,often in isolated small towns in Iowa,Nebraska

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