On the surface they look very different--rugged northern New
England with its primarily White population, the arid Lower Rio
Grande Valley inhabited mainly by Hispanics, the green and humid
Mississippi Delta with a mix of Black and White residents. But when
it comes to economics, they have much in common--fortune passed
them by.
Along with other predominantly rural regions, these areas have
fallen behind the rest of the United States in many ways, from job
opportunity and education to health care and living conditions. In
Forgotten Places, Thomas Lyson and William Falk have brought
together works by regional experts on some of the major forgotten
places throughout the country: northern New England, the Lower Rio
Grande Valley, the Delta, Appalachia, the southern Black belt, the
"flannel shirt frontier" of Oregon, the Ozarks, the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan, and rural California.
In these essays, the authors focus on problems that keep the
regions below the national average in income and standard-of-living
surveys. Although the dilemmas vary--a pre-abolition caste system
retained in the Mississippi Delta; expendable resources from lumber
to lead that have been nearly expended in such places as Ontonagon,
Michigan and Oakridge, Oregon; and large farming operations that
utilize low-paid, immigrant labor in California--the predicaments
are often the same. High illiteracy, dead-end jobs, lack of
adequate health care, poor housing conditions, lack of industry and
capital, and inability to influence government policy have too
often perpetuated a vicious circle of poverty for many people in
forgotten places.
Each chapter, focusing on a different region, examines why the
area languished during an era of economic growth; what social,
economic, and political forces contributed to uneven development
and poverty; what government has done to alleviate uneven
development and lack of opportunity; current social and economic
conditions; and locally based attempts to enhance economic
development. And after delving into the past and present, the
causes and the consequences, the authors speculate on what the
future may bear.
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