The change in rural areas, fully framed

This article tells about the changing population in rural Minnesota. We have to think most rural areas are similar. - - Donna Poisl

Article by: DICK SENESE

Some move out. Others move in. Adaptations are successfully made.

Another constitutionally required decennial census has been conducted, and we will begin to hear lamentations about rural population decline, aging population and young people leaving rural areas.

The fundamental shifts contributing to these trends affect all of Minnesota, requiring residents and community leaders to rethink the future. Framing rural changes only as decline, however, leads to a false narrative that misses the nuance and vitality of rural communities and contributes to an already divisive civic dialogue.
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