Map 1. The title is "Rural Depopulation Is Most Prevalent in the Great Plains".

A map of the United States depicts by color, the rate of rural depopulation across America from 1970 to 2000. In the Great Plains states, representing North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Montana, Minnesota Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma show an accelerated decline in rural population as compared with the rest of the country. The heaviest representation of depopulation is in the states of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.