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Big boxes on the plains: two small towns react to Wal-Mart.(McCook, Nebraska and Concordia, Kansas)
Middle America doesn't get more middle than the long necklace of small towns strung along the Republican River, which rises in eastern Colorado and ends in Kansas. There are no sprawling metropolises here: Two of the largest towns--McCook, Nebraska and Concordia, Kansas--have populations of 7,700 and 5,400, respectively. I should say they "had" that population, since this is the agricultural heartland, where emigrants to bigger cities are one of the most reliable crops. In both towns, 25-50 people pack up each year and leave, continuing a population decline that started not long after they were founded (Concordia in 1866, McCook 16 years later). The cycles of agrarian ...
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