Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
October 1997
Abstract
Steve H. Murdock, in collaboration with four secondary authors, has produced an intriguing but somewhat puzzling book on population change and the future of Texas. While population studies are certainly within the authors' domain of Rural Sociology, Texas is no longer a "rural" state based on population. Over eighty percent of the state's population now resides in urban areas, although Texas laws, traditions, and attitudes still honor and project a rural mystique. This might have been emphasized as part of the Texas Challenge.
Throughout the text the authors emphasize four major trends in Texas population: the changing rate of population growth and the relative role of migration and immigration in that growth, the aging of the population, the growth in the size of the minority population, and finally, the changing composition of households in Texas population.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Research 7:2 (Fall 1997). Copyright © 1997 The Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Used by permission. http://www.unl.edu/plains/publications/GPR/gpr.shtml