New in The Conversation from Tim Slack and @smonnat.bsky.social Shannon Monnat: "6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong" 1/ theconversation.com/6-myths-abou...

6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong

Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wisdom.

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Ever wonder about what’s it like to grow up in rural America? So did we! @shelleydclark.bsky.social and I tackle two basic—but essential—questions in our new Journal of Marriage and Family article, just out today. Who do rural kids live with today? How likely are rural kids to grow up in poverty?

Matt Brooks @ruraldemography.bsky.social points to unexpected changes in rural families that not only affect our understanding of who is poor in rural America but also how to address national child poverty. Join us for the next PSC Brown Bag live or on Zoom! psc.isr.umich.edu/events/zivin...

Wrote this for the conversation about immigrants in Florida, and whether the state is really experiencing an immigration crisis. And if it is, then what do we actually know about immigrants in the state.

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Florida’s immigrant population is growing (both legal and undocumented) but recent illegal entries are shrinking. Immigrants make up 22% of residents and play a vital role in the state’s booming economy. theconversation.com/unpacking-fl...

Our latest digest shares the work of @ruraldemography.bsky.social‬, @jtommueller.bsky.social‬, Brian C. Thiede, and Daniel T. Lichter examining the underappreciated role of diversity in nonmetropolitan areas and identifying patterns underlying recent changes to rural demographics.

Brooks et al.: Ethnoracial Diversity Across Nonmetropolitan America — The Rural Reconciliation Project

In Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America , Matthew M. Brooks (Sociology and Center for Demography and Population Health, Fl...

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A few days late, but just want to say how I love going to PAA!

🚨🚨🚨 Hot off the press! Shelley Clark and I wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post that’s out this morning about declining Marriage rates in rural America (and the potentially “misaligned” policy implications that go along with it). Would love to hear your thoughts!

Shelley Clark@shelleydclark.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm in the @washingtonpost.com today with my coauthor @ruraldemography.bsky.social Matthew Brooks talking about marriage and childbearing in rural America— and the outdated stereotypes that seem to be informing the new Trump transportation policy. @mcgillumedia.bsky.social wapo.st/42SavfP 1/3

New Trump admin guidelines prioritize transportation spending and infrastructure for “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” which many are reading as a shorthand for subsidizing white rural communities. The truth is complicated. tinyurl.com/DOTpolicy2025 1/

We are now on our fourth day of snows days here. I did some thinking and I think that this might be more snow days than I got in undergrad and grad school combined. And it might be the same amount I got all through high school (in Minnesota)!