Thompson But this population is not at all comparable in socio-economic status to that which normally has been assembled in a metropolitan area of one-half million population. Eastern Arkansas holds today a residual population: a few who have made it in agriculture (large scale, capital intensive farming) and many more who have not, and a trade and service sector that has grown up relatively sheltered from competition. There are other notable differences between the classic city and an agricultural area that has weakly and tentatively urbanized. Old houses are scattered far and wide and many (most?) are not served by any form of public transportation, except the school bus. The normal filtering down of housing that demands no more of a low income family than that it move another mile farther out from the old city center, along the same old bus route, here requires that the family change towns. Psychologically, this is probably more a migration than a "move. A corollary to this is that "towns

DOI link for Thompson But this population is not at all comparable in socio-economic status to that which normally has been assembled in a metropolitan area of one-half million population. Eastern Arkansas holds today a residual population: a few who have made it in agriculture (large scale, capital intensive farming) and many more who have not, and a trade and service sector that has grown up relatively sheltered from competition. There are other notable differences between the classic city and an agricultural area that has weakly and tentatively urbanized. Old houses are scattered far and wide and many (most?) are not served by any form of public transportation, except the school bus. The normal filtering down of housing that demands no more of a low income family than that it move another mile farther out from the old city center, along the same old bus route, here requires that the family change towns. Psychologically, this is probably more a migration than a "move. A corollary to this is that "towns

Thompson But this population is not at all comparable in socio-economic status to that which normally has been assembled in a metropolitan area of one-half million population. Eastern Arkansas holds today a residual population: a few who have made it in agriculture (large scale, capital intensive farming) and many more who have not, and a trade and service sector that has grown up relatively sheltered from competition. There are other notable differences between the classic city and an agricultural area that has weakly and tentatively urbanized. Old houses are scattered far and wide and many (most?) are not served by any form of public transportation, except the school bus. The normal filtering down of housing that demands no more of a low income family than that it move another mile farther out from the old city center, along the same old bus route, here requires that the family change towns. Psychologically, this is probably more a migration than a "move. A corollary to this is that "towns