LIST OF FIGURES
1.1 Distribution of nonurban towns and people
9
2.1 Income diversity by size of place
19
2.2 Population age sixty-five and older by town size
38
2.3 Interviewers’ ratings of dwellings
48
3.1 Residents raised in small town or rural area
54
3.2 Crime rate by size of town
66
3.3 Ambience by town size
67
3.4 Amenity scores of small nonurban towns
73
3.5 Towns losing population
80
3.6 Decline by amenity ranking
81
3.7 Decline by economic type
83
3.8 Walmart shoppers by size of county
88
3.9 Percent who work outside county by town size
90
3.10 White Anglo population by town size
93
3.11 Towns with foreign-born residents
94
3.12 Hispanic versus Anglo income and poverty
97
4.1 Decline in schools and enrollment
105
4.2 Who you could count on
112
4.3 Trust of neighbors and shop clerks
113
5.1 Employment in professions and management
140
5.2 Farmers and farm income
166
5.3 Farms by farm size
167
6.1 Nonprofit associations per thousand residents
183
6.2 Membership in selected organizations
184
6.3 Neighboring towns by town size
204
6.4 Effect of size of nearest town
205
6.5 Effect of five neighboring towns
206
7.1 Churches per thousand residents
220
7.2 Religious adherence and membership
221
7.3 Church attendance by education level
224
7.4 Attendance by town size and amenities
227
7.5 Change in churches and adherents
244
8.1 Prolife sentiment by town size
269
8.2 Attitudes toward abortion
271
8.3 Support for antigay amendment
279
9.1 Concern about government spending
294
9.2 Trust by population density
304
9.3 Relative political party identification
309
9.4 Red state voting by incidence of small towns
310
9.5 Tea Party movement support
314
10.1 Geographic mobility by education
321
10.2 Effects of early marriage on college attainment
326
11.1 Building blocks of community
342
