You Can't Outrun It! The Great Replacement Comes to Rural America
How mass migration is reshaping every corner of America.
How mass migration is reshaping every corner of America.
No matter how far Americans flee from the pressures of urban life, the Great Replacement will always find them.
A Trump administration that engages in largely performative immigration enforcement continues to promise sweeping deportations, yet the demographic transformation of the country continues apace. These gestures have not produced the mass removals that supporters expected, and the underlying trends remain unchanged.
America’s shifting population profile now reaches far beyond the usual metropolitan centers of Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City—all which resemble Towers of Babel unrecognizable to the previous White European settlers who built these illustrious cities. Rural communities once thought immune to these noxious trends now feel the full force of these changes, as the Daily Yonder reported in its examination of population trends in rural America through recent Census data.
Close to 300,000 people have arrived from overseas in non-metropolitan counties since 2020. This influx accounts for most rural population growth during this period, according to the Census. Rural America has grown since the pandemic, yet this follows a decade of contraction that began right after the Great Recession. Research from the University of New Hampshire shows that rural counties…