Migration trends in the Kansas Ogallala region and the internal colonial dependency model

The High Plains of the United States has been portrayed both as a place of despair and a region of renaissance. This study proposes that, within the Ogallala Aquifer portion of the High Plains, landscapes of decline and renaissance co-exist within the context of an internal colonial dependency model...

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Published in:Rural sociology 1998-06, Vol.63 (2), p.253-271
Main Author: White, S.E. (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.)
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Language
Age Groups
Appalachia
APPALACHIAN STATES (USA)
Aquifers
Colonialism
COMPARISONS
Counties
DEMOGRAFIA
Demographic Change
DEMOGRAPHIE
DEMOGRAPHY
Dependence
Dependency (Economics)
Dependency Theory
DINAMICA DE POBLACIONES
DYNAMIQUE DES POPULATIONS
Economic Change
Economic decline
Economic Progress
Educational Attainment
Emigration
ESTADOS APALACHES (EUA)
ETATS APPALACHIENS (EU)
Factors
Figurative Language
Geography
High plains
HIGHLANDS
History
Inhalants
Internal Colonialism
Internal Migration
KANSAS
Kansas (West)
Land Use
LLANURAS
MIGRACION
MIGRATION
Migration Patterns
MODELE
MODELOS
Natural Resources
PLAINE
PLAINS
Population
Population decline
POPULATION DYNAMICS
Population Trends
Poverty
REGION D'ALTITUDE
Regional Characteristics
Regions
Rural and urban sociology
Rural Areas
Rural sociology
Rural to Urban Migration
Rural Urban Differences
Social change
Social conditions & trends
Social Problems
Sociology
TENDANCE
TENDENCIAS
TRENDS
U.S.A
ZONA DE MONTANA
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Summary:The High Plains of the United States has been portrayed both as a place of despair and a region of renaissance. This study proposes that, within the Ogallala Aquifer portion of the High Plains, landscapes of decline and renaissance co-exist within the context of an internal colonial dependency model. While the notion of internal colonial dependency has been applied primarily to the central Appalachian region, an assessment of population change in the High Plains of western Kansas suggests some striking similarities with the population change expected in a region conforming to the internal colonial dependency metaphor. This study identifies a wide range of colonial dependent characteristics, as they apply to the High Plains, with a focus on migration. Demographic changes supporting a colonial influence include long-term population decline in most counties, high median age, high levels of channelized out-migration, even higher levels of channelized in-migration, in-migration flow origins that are concentrated in just four other Ogallala states, and a continued long-term trend of exporting the region's most educated inhabitants
ISSN:0036-0112
1549-0831
DOI:10.1111/j.1549-0831.1998.tb00674.x