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To: Terry Whitman who wrote (85066)3/24/2001 8:10:24 PM
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<<There is supposedly a 9 yr, cycle in real estate. >>

On that line, I found this interesting:
Friday March 23 1:15 PM ET
Census: Midwest Towns Shrinking

By SHARON COHEN, Associated Press Writer

The class of 2001 in the tiny town of Morland, Kan., is small enough to fit at a card table. When the four seniors graduate this spring, it will mark a beginning for them - and an end for their high school.

Morland High School - with 19 students - will hand out its diplomas in May, then close its doors days later, one more casualty of declining population in the more remote, rural towns of the nation's heartland.

``Some people are angry, some people are sad,'' says 27-year-old Principal Shelly Swayne, who grew up in a nearby northwestern Kansas town that lost its high school decades ago. ``It's hard for us to see beyond our own boundaries. We see this as a single phenomenon happening to us. But it's a lot bigger than we are.''

It sure is.

The 2000 census confirmed long-held suspicions: Many small towns in isolated stretches of the Midwest and Great Plains are withering away.

Schools are closing, farmers are giving up and young people are moving out, leaving behind the elderly in communities struggling to keep their names on the map.....
dailynews.yahoo.com
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