Rural Kansas Stays Losing Population

It's hard to argue with numbers . . . And yet . . . We won't gleefully celebrate the end of an era like some of our progressive pals who know this trend will eat away the Red State base. . . Check the deets:

In 2014, when he was the governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback made the bold prediction that the state would soon reach a new population milestone — Kansas would surpass a population of 3 million by 2020.

Three years after the date he predicted, Kansas is still waiting for that three-millionth Kansan. U.S. Census figures show Kansas had a population of 2.93 million people in 2020. That’s an increase of just 85,000 residents in a decade — driven by growth in its larger cities and suburbs, not its small towns.

Rural parts of the state continue to see significant declines.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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